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Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools


You don’t want to have a conversation with your computer, you want to build.

You’re using English, but you’re defining terms, establishing rules, and managing complex interactions between everything you’ve said. That’s why we use documents—they let us organize complexity, reference specific points, and track changes systematically. When your intent is in a document instead of scattered across a chat log, English becomes a real programming language:

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