ChatGPT will not eat all software

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ChatGPT will eat up a lot of the software we use every day. I’m not particularly interested in using Uber Eats if I can just ask a bot to order lunch. Not having to wade through dozens of options on Google Flights or Expedia will be a welcome relief. I’d even give the bot access to my email if it can use that to automatically schedule meetings for me. The future is here!

Marvelous! Based on my usage of ChatGPT thus far, I believe I would rather use the existing Uber Eats, Expedia, and mail clients... not because I think ChatGPT can't do the job, but I'd just rather not handle these things through a chat.

But glad a chat interface that the author prefers is now available! For me, I hope the existing interfaces do not go away.

I see it a bit like "low-code", in negative way. Great for simplifying some charicature of a workflow, but if you have to do something with any corners, which is most nontrivial real work, it breaks down and you've got to work within the "simplified" construct to hack your way back to a solution that does what you want.

(And to your point, the added annoyance of a chat based interface that adds ambiguity for no benefit)

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