Tools That Pause the Loop

In a chat interface, text is the natural medium. The user is driving, and free-form text is the right tool for &ldquo;here&rsquo;s where I want to go next.&rdquo; But sometimes the AI is the one that needs something specific from the user, and the moment that happens, text flips from the obvious choice to a bad one: ambiguous, high-friction, and one more thing the model has to parse and…