http://programmer.ie/tags/human-computer-interaction/ Recent content in Human Computer Interaction on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us http://programmer.ie/books/agent-architectures/07-chapter/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://programmer.ie/books/agent-architectures/07-chapter/ <h3 id="from-interface-to-working-medium">From Interface to Working Medium</h3> <p>For most of computing history, using a machine meant learning its language.</p> <p>You learned commands, menus, file formats, programming languages, configuration panels, and error messages. Good software made that translation easier. Bad software made it painful. Either way, the human usually adapted to the machine.</p> <p>Language models change the entry point. You can begin with ordinary language:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span style="display:flex;"><span>what I want </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>what I have </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>what matters </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>what went wrong </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>what I want to try next </span></span></code></pre></div><p>That does not make formal interfaces disappear. Under the surface, software still needs APIs, databases, permissions, schemas, tests, and execution environments. But the first contact can now be conversation.</p>