> Is it really that intimidating to have an empty text box on Whatsapp or your favorite SMS app? No, as you expect to have an appropriate response coming from the other side, pretty much regardless of what your input is.
Yes, very much yes - sure, I can expect to get an appropriate response, but that doesn't change the fact I don't know what to write about to start the conversation. Empty text box does indeed scare me - if I want to write something, but have no good idea what to write (or more than couple competing ideas that feel equivalent), my mind simply goes blank.
Yes, this applies to ChatGPT too. There's million of things I want to bounce off GPT-4. But when I have the time, none of those things come to mind.
Surely the author and I are not the only ones in this. There's a reason the "fear of empty page" is a term amongst writers. There's a reason you may occasionally hear of the "fear of empty text editor" in context of programming.
Of course, if I know what I want, then it's all fine - except, I find myself constantly constrained by my own typing speed. Doubly so now, with the recently improved response time of OpenAI's GPT endpoints.
Do you go to google.com when you have nothing to search for?
When you do, does the current opening UI feel that inadequate?
There's a simple reason they haven't added tons of UI elements for things like advanced search operators: the vast majority of the queries and the vast majority of users simply don't need them to get what they want from the tool.
FWIW, they have no reliable way of measuring what "vast majority of users" "want from the tool", or when they get it. Users navigating to one of the search results and abandoning the search may mean they found what they want - or it may just mean they gave up.
Yes, very much yes - sure, I can expect to get an appropriate response, but that doesn't change the fact I don't know what to write about to start the conversation. Empty text box does indeed scare me - if I want to write something, but have no good idea what to write (or more than couple competing ideas that feel equivalent), my mind simply goes blank.
Yes, this applies to ChatGPT too. There's million of things I want to bounce off GPT-4. But when I have the time, none of those things come to mind.
Surely the author and I are not the only ones in this. There's a reason the "fear of empty page" is a term amongst writers. There's a reason you may occasionally hear of the "fear of empty text editor" in context of programming.
Of course, if I know what I want, then it's all fine - except, I find myself constantly constrained by my own typing speed. Doubly so now, with the recently improved response time of OpenAI's GPT endpoints.