Duo Chat: allow editing the a question to course correct the conversation

Problem

When I already have a longer conversation with Duo this conversation accumulated a certain value as Duo knows the larger context that I am currently concerned with. If I then ask a question that is not well formulated (or misses context or has the wrong context) and Duo gets it wrong, I want to be able to go back and improve my question. This is more efficient and probably leads to better results than having to correct my question with a follow-up question: "No that is not what I meant....".

Proposal

• Enable users to change the course of the conversation from a specific user question onwards:
  • Let users edit any already sent question that is part of the conversation
  • Also let them change the context attached to that question (e.g. include a different file, remove a file, or add a file)
• When the user made that change and sends the edited question,
  • either delete all follow-ups from that edited question onward
  • or create a new branch like some market leaders do.
• This should work in the chat in the Web UI as well as in the IDEs.

Industry state of the art

This is a table stakes standard in other chats in the industry.

Option 1 - Branching

When a user edits a message, we branch the conversation so the user has access to both through the UI.

Branching Flow

Option 2 - Restarting Chat

When a user edits a message, we delete the previous conversation.

Restarting Flow