Flutterby™! : Why AI needs "conversations"/refinement prompts

I think this isn't quite the correct model for how these things are working, but it may be a way to help people get to the "this is just a slot machine" and "one more prompt, bro, just one more prompt" realization: Why your AI never works on the first try:

But not the classic version where you can see all the cities and plan the optimal route. This was different. The AI was like a traveling salesman without a map. It could only see the road signs at its current intersection. It couldn't look ahead to plan a route. It could only see which roads left from where it stood and pick the most promising one.