▲ | dvt 2 days ago | |||||||
Suffers from the same problem as all other AI "workflows"--no one wants to fucking chat with a computer (Brave sort-of does this, and it's god-awful). A chat interface should only be used as a fallback if the agent is too dumb to figure out what I want. A chat interface works for ChatGPT because most folks use it as a pseudo-search, but productivity tools are (broadly speaking) not generative, therefore shouldn't be using freeform inputs. I have many thoughts on fixing this, and it's a very hard problem, but simply slapping an LLM onto Chrome is just lazy. I don't mean to be overly negative, but it's kind of wild to see YC funding slop like this. And that's exactly what this is: slop. There's no technical creativity here, this isn't a new product segment, it barely deserves the "hey bro, this might be a feature, not a product" startup 101 criticism. It's what ChatGPT would spit out if you asked it what a good startup idea would be in 2025. All we need to do, even if we were being as charitable as possible, is ask who's doing the heavy lifting here (hint: it's not in the Github repo). | ||||||||
▲ | brulard 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
What do you see as an alternative? This is exactly what people need. To give quick instructions and have agent work on tasks across webpages/webapps. You say you "have many thoughts on fixing this". Can you share a better vision? | ||||||||
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▲ | sunnybeetroot 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
Have you used Cursor or Claude Code or any others? I want to chat to a computer and get it to do my programming over writing the programming myself. | ||||||||
▲ | doctorpangloss 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
Like hundreds of millions of people want to chat with a computer. At least. | ||||||||
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