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?

	▲	dvt 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, it involves "recipes" for different "action types" based on a few things (past behavior, sensible "default" behavior, the context, etc.). For example, when looking at a storefront, the agent might want to give a few options (off the top of my head): `- It knows you're low on milk, so it suggests buying milk - It can get a list of all deals, maybe even cross-checking with other storefronts - It knows your sister was looking for a planter, and it found a particularly cheap one, so it suggests texting it to her - Etc. - (You can of course still chat with the thing, if you so desire)` These recipes are difficult to come up with and hard to generalize (they also need to be categorized, and likely accurately picked from a [RAG?] database), but imo this is the future if AI agents, not yet another chatbox.

▲ 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.

	▲	dvt 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		This is simply not true in the productivity space (which is the context here). People just want to get shit done.