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Comment by escapecharacter

7 days ago

This is similar to an old HCI design technique called Wizard of Oz by the way, where a human operator pretends to be the app that doesn’t exist yet. It’s great for discovering new features.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_of_Oz_experiment

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kragen  7 days ago

I'd never heard that term! Thank you! I feel like LLMs ought to be fantastic at doing that, as well. This is sort of like the inverse.

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