{"id":565,"date":"2025-08-03T12:41:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T11:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/?p=565"},"modified":"2025-08-03T13:41:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T12:41:43","slug":"context-is-the-new-user-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/context-is-the-new-user-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"Context is the new user interface"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-text-annotation is-style-text-annotation--1\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/transparency-framework\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"319\">Transparency label: Human-led<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>How we guide AI not with buttons, but with words and context.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you use an AI like ChatGPT, there are no menus or toolbars. Instead, the way you interact &#8211; what you say, how you say it, and what you show it &#8211; <em>is<\/em> the interface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s what we mean by <strong>context<\/strong>. It\u2019s the information you give the AI to help it understand what you want. A vague prompt gives you a vague answer. A clear prompt, with the right background, gets you something much more useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This new kind of interface has several parts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Prompt window<\/strong> \u2013 where you ask questions and give tasks<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Custom instructions<\/strong> \u2013 where you shape the AI\u2019s behaviour<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>File uploads<\/strong> \u2013 where you provide background material<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Project spaces<\/strong> \u2013 where you store persistent context for a task<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Canvas<\/strong> \u2013 where you co-develop ideas with the AI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You don\u2019t click buttons. You build context. And the better the context, the better the outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Backlink: <a href=\"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/an-llm-is-like-an-operating-system\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"560\">An LLM is like an operation system<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-text-annotation is-style-text-annotation--2\"><em>This post was written by Alec with support from ChatGPT. Alec directed the concept, structure, and final wording. ChatGPT contributed phrasings and refinements, which were reviewed and approved by Alec.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transparency label: Human-led How we guide AI not with buttons, but with words and context. When you use an AI like ChatGPT, there are no menus or toolbars. Instead, the way you interact &#8211; what you say, how you say it, and what you show it &#8211; is the interface. That\u2019s what we mean by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[214,216,209,215,212,213],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-analogy","tag-file-upload","tag-llm","tag-project-space","tag-prompt","tag-user-interface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}