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emollick: new uses need new interfaces

What's this about?

Ethan Mollick is experimenting with non-keyboard ways to drive Codex — voice, and a Teenage Engineering hardware controller — arguing the interface, not just the model, is a big untapped frontier. Separately he warns that as benchmarks get more complex, we're losing the human-comparison baselines that made them meaningful.

Why it matters

255 + 198 likes. It extends his "harness engineering" theme from yesterday into physical interfaces, and the benchmark point is a real measurement problem: scores with no human yardstick are hard to interpret.
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