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Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools

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858 points cryptophreak | 1 comments | 04 Feb 25 16:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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croes ◴[04 Feb 25 16:22 UTC] No.42934439[source]▶
Natural language isn’t made to be precise that’s why we use a subset in programming languages.

So you either need lots of extra text to remove the ambiguity of natural language if you use AI or you need a special precise subset to communicate with AI and that’s just programming with extra steps.

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1. dylan604 ◴[04 Feb 25 16:48 UTC] No.42934909[source]▶
> and that’s just programming with extra steps.

If you know how to program, then I agree and part of why I don't see the point. If you don't know how to program, than the prompt isn't much different than providing the specs/requirements to a programmer.