Building Software Requires Digestion (opens in new tab)

Here’s Scott Jenson in his insightful piece “The Ma of a New Machine”: the chatbot interface [makes us] feel like deep cognitive work is happening. But the interface is fundamentally reactive. It spits complex text at you, you skim it quickly, and you immediately type a reaction to keep the momentum going. My hypothesis is that the very structure of the chatbot interface (type, read, type again) actively discourages reflection. When you are moving too fast, you get stuck in a groove. You lite...