The biggest bottleneck to AI adoption: A blank text box hides everything when the interface should reveal its own capabilities. (Miguel Acevedo)
- The blank text box is AI's biggest UX failure: it hides what the system can do from the people most likely to benefit from it.
- Alan Kay's ant-in-the-Grand-Canyon metaphor captures the gap well: agent-fluent users see a dozen automation opportunities in an hour of watching someone else work, while that person stares at an empty prompt.
- Templates and context help at the margins, but the core problem remains unsolved: the burden of discovery still falls on the user, not the system.
