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Why Read This from an HCI Perspective

This article treats AI not as a tool that simply produces results ‘in one go,’ but as an interaction where users keep watching, revising, and co-creating. For HCI practitioners and researchers, it highlights that feedback loops—where users get stuck and what they can say to fix it—matter more than the prompt itself. Especially for tasks where revision costs are high, like visual deliverables, it’s worth noting how iterative design can change UX. Overall, it offers a practical lens on how the experience of using generative AI evolves when users are actively shaping outcomes.

CIT's Commentary

The core of this piece isn’t whether the model is smart—it’s how quickly users can spot what’s wrong after seeing the result and then re-instruct it. The advice to ‘don’t over-engineer the first prompt’ suggests that giving the AI room to explore may lead to better outcomes. However, in real products, that same freedom can feel like instability, so it’s important to design clear boundaries for what’s automated versus what users should control. The Canvas-style approach of editing by breaking work into scenes is powerful—it turns complex editing into something more like working at a nearby whiteboard—but it also raises the question of how much decision-making burden you should offload from users. This flow also shows that in the era of generative AI, UX is shifting from ‘making it well’ to ‘making it together.’

Questions to Consider While Reading

• Q.The advice that ‘starting over is faster when the first result is wrong’ can be efficient for some users, but a learning cost for others—how can we reduce that cost?
• Q.Canvas-style editing by splitting into scenes is powerful, but what information architecture is needed so users can understand state and decide where to intervene?
• Q.When applying this kind of video-generation workflow to marketing teams or startup environments in Korea, what constraints differ from global cases?