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The chat box isn't a UI paradigm, it's what shipped
Adi Leviim argues that the chat box interface became the default for AI products not through thoughtful design but through shipping convenience: it was the fastest UI to build around LLMs' text-generation capabilities in 2022. The essay contends that this default choice sacrifices decades of established interface design principles, maximizing both the gulf of execution and gulf of evaluation, forcing users into iterative refinement loops when they should have direct manipulation and structured information surfaces.