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Comment by AnimalMuppet

2 years ago

I've been at a SQL command prompt a decade or several before LLM.

You’re still in the command paradigm with some batch processing thrown in. With an LLM interface to a db you don’t write queries, you express an intent such as “I’d like to know why my customers are not resubscribing” and the LLM will write one or more queries and then interpret the results to give you an answer in plain English with a chart attached.

That is not the point here. Did you any point believe that you were experiencing a mass market user experience at those times?

  • I was experiencing something declarative at that point.

    What's your actual position? Is "declarative" the relevant piece, or is it "mass market user experience"?

    • My point here is that what Norman Nielsen deals with is "mass market user experience". This has been very clear for a very long time.