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 "Get help writing this query" implies a human support mechanism (or a link to a help desk / manual), which this isn't I need a widely understood shortcut for "this button will get the computer to do a weirdly useful trick that needs a widely agreed upon name..." I think "AI", at least in terms of UI micro-copy, may be by far the best option at this point Anyone seen any UI elements that do this kind of thing and use some other widely understood term for it? 20 comments
  @simon I think you should avoid “AI” and “✨” purely for branding purposes. LLMs have a stink on them thanks to indiscriminate deployment by desperate companies hitting their growth ceilings. instead call it something like “autogenerate query” or “English to SQL” or “ask a question about your data” @frew that's more or less where I am right now, I think "AI" increasingly means so thing useful to end-users, at least as a UI term  AI is the mechanism, not the thing. How it does it's job is largely irrelevant to the end user. When I want help at the library - I don't talk to the "person" - I talk to the "librarian". So: "Wizard". Windows has had things like the "Network Setup Wizard" for literally decades. We know it means "here let me help you do this specialized task". Co-opt the term. That or "assistant". But "wizard" has a pre-established meaning in this context. @tbortels Wizard is actually pretty good, I worry that it carries a huge amount of baggage though - I would almost never select the "wizard" option in a piece of software I was using @simon @tbortels In UX, Wizard generally refers to a series of screens that guide you through complex options https://www.nngroup.com/articles/wizards/ Now, the average user may not know that, so perhaps “Wizard” could still work, but I think something like “✨Suggest query” might get across what you want, and give the user the right mindset to carefully evaluate what the AI does @simon Putting my UX hat on, why does it need a button at all? The ideal interaction could be just to do it live? Or something like Show/Preview/Generate SQL/Query.  @simon Something like „magic wand“ from Photoshop-like software? It was magic back then so they called it magic wand. The name says nothing about the feature, but now everybody still knows what exactly it does. Naming is strange. @simon "Generate query ✨". Sparkles have become an informal standard to indicate AI magic: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ai-sparkles-icon-problem/  @simon The text doesn't matter so long as it's in an aurora-toned gradient. Jokes aside I think "Generate" is understood and doesn't oversell it. |
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@simon I don't rate the chances of it catching on, but something like VS Code's "Try to infer the type of parameters from usage" feels like it's in the right vein.
"Try to infer the correct query based on natural language"? It's not exactly catchy 😜