Where The Linear Chat Paradigm Starts To Fall Apart
Expanding on this comment from my last post:
I have yet to find a UI that lets me tag a chunk of response (eg a specific bullet point) to come back to, or what I really want which is a waterfall of the different conversations that split out of a long response. Typically I want to respond and ask more (or provide more detail) about 2-5 bullet points but in a purely linear structure I’m constantly scrolling back up and trying to remember things I want to loop back and ask about.
I put together a (totally fake) example diagram to illustrate what I mean:
As we get further into the “reasoning era” I think this problem will only become more pronounced. It’s surprising to me that none of the major LLM providers have explored branching logic (at least to my knowledge).
The current solution of “scroll back up and reference earlier in the conversation” falls apart as soon as you get past a few messages. You almost need a mechanism that says “pick back up with my state from here”.
More to come…