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  • Glyphglyph@mastodon.social
    Nov 10, 2026, 9:50 PM

    @aparrish I say this because I think that if we want to get rid of them (and BOY HOWDY DO I WANT TO GET RID OF THEM) I think we need to figure out a similar affordance to present traditional automation techniques and a way to get it in front of users. There's a built-in marketing pitch, if we can manage it; "like Chrome's AI, but it's reliable and you can understand what it's doing!" but it's still tough to compete with freeform english-language input box that "does anything"

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  • allisonaparrish@friend.camp
    Nov 10, 2026, 10:11 PM

    @glyph see i think the idea of the LLM as a "universal affordance" is part of what's being propped up with politics and marketing. a chat interface isn't inherently a superior way to do computer stuff—it's just that decades of tech commercials and scifi have convinced people that it *must* be superior. but yeah, from a practical "what should we do" perspective, providing folks with any other kind of interface is definitely an uphill battle

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