The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine
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Developers who successfully use AI coding assistants invest significant effort in scaffolding, configuration, and learning complex interaction patterns that aren't immediately obvious. The gap between AI marketing promises and actual out-of-the-box performance requires users to develop sophisticated skills in prompting, model selection, and agent management. This adaptive work highlights poor interaction design in current AI tools, which are built to appear autonomous but actually require constant human guidance and correction to be productive.
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Money Claps for Tinkerbell, and so Must YouA Theory of DivisionThe Load-bearing Scaffolding of Effective UsersThe Gap Highlighted Through Adaptive WorkBad Interaction Design Demands Greater Coping SkillsWe Oversell Machines by Erasing Ourselves55 Impressions