Nobody really knows how to product-ize any of these LLM interfaces beyond just chat.
They don't want a traditional UI with buttons and forms and labels because they want the interface to be "chat". The problem is that "chat" is tedious. And the turn-based, linear nature of the chat interaction model makes it even more tedious and unproductive.
One thing I would like is a tree-like chat structure like reddit / HN. Many times I abandon the direction things have gone but would like to resume at some ancestor or sibling response.
Gemini has something kind of like this. In a chat, click on the "..." icon next to one of Gemini's responses and select "Branch in new chat".
It creates a new chat which has the conversation up to that point and a link to the conversation you branched it from.
The UI isn't tree-like, though. It's more like Git where each branch name is just mixed in with the rest of the soup of references.
petcat · · focus · HN ↗
They don't want a traditional UI with buttons and forms and labels because they want the interface to be "chat". The problem is that "chat" is tedious. And the turn-based, linear nature of the chat interaction model makes it even more tedious and unproductive.
clumsysmurf · · focus · HN ↗
adrianmonk · · focus · HN ↗
It creates a new chat which has the conversation up to that point and a link to the conversation you branched it from.
The UI isn't tree-like, though. It's more like Git where each branch name is just mixed in with the rest of the soup of references.
AshleyGrant · · focus · HN ↗