The assistant
A person asks, the product answers, and the turn ends. Every piece exists to make one reply good enough to act on.
Starts on: User message · Screen action
In
Assemble
Decide
Out
Suits
- Open-ended questions where the person cannot state the task precisely
- Work that needs a human in the loop anyway, such as drafting and deciding
- Long-tail requests that would never justify their own feature
Strains
- Anything that must happen whether or not someone is watching
- High volume at low margin: a person waiting means a model call per question
- Tasks where the same input must give the same output every time