The "Verbalist" bottleneck: Language is linear (one word after another), but design is parallel (everything is seen at once).
Forcing a parallel process through a linear pipe (the textbox) is inherently inefficient.
Raghav Agrawal
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2026-03-07 18:24:40 UTC
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