alt Hacker News> Ideally the alert would only happen if the comment seemed important but it would readily discard short or nonsensical input. That is really difficult to do in traditional software but is something an LLM could do with low effort.
I read this post yesterday and this specific example kept coming back to me because something about it just didn't sit right. And I finally figured it out: Glancing at the alert box (or the browser-provided "do you want to navigate away from this page" modal) and considering the text that I had entered takes... less than 5 seconds.
Sure, 5 seconds here and there adds up over the course of a day, but I really feel like this example is grasping at straws.
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The problem isn't so much the five seconds, it is the muscle memory. You become accustomed to blindly hitting "Yes" every time you've accidentally typed something into the text box, and then that time when you actually put a lot of effort into something... Boom. Its gone. I have been bitten before. Something like the parent described would be a huge improvement.
Granted, it seems the even better UX is to save what the user inputs and let them recover if they lost something important. That would also help for other things, like crashes, which have also burned me in the past. But tradeoffs, as always.
A rarer-ish chance to use this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1205/
I'd put this in "save 5 seconds daily" to be generous. Remember that this is time saved over 5 years.
It’s also trivially solvable with idk, a length check, or any number of other things which don’t need to 100b parameters to calculate.