> most people hit a wall figuring out what it's actually good for beyond parlor tricks.

That's what my parents thought about computers and the internet, wondering what it's actually good for beyond burning $9000 in phone bills to Zerg rush Protoss noobs.

And all the other things computers+internet could do, they could already do through other more reliable (at the time) ways.

But then it turned out that simply making mundane tasks just a little bit faster, and reducing the need to interact with strangers by just that little bit, created a new step on the staircase, a new baseline, with which to reach and do other grander things more easily.

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hshdhdhehd 2 days ago | parent [-]

Email was the killer app I think that showed everyone how damn useful the internet is. Then Hotmail showed how convenient email can be.

What is the AI version of that? Maybe code generation. Maybe.

	▲	brazukadev 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Code generation/LLMs are the SMTP and other internet protocols, we don't have killer apps yet.
	▲	Razengan 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> What is the AI version of that? Being able to plan a trip from a single sentence would be one killer app for many people: "I'm free next week. I'd like to go to A, B, or C for a couple days. What's a cheap flight and a room within this budget near X area?" and if it could go and also make a booking through your accounts that would be amazing. But right now even Google's Gemini is an utter useless dumbass if asked to search Google Flights or Airbnb. I mean if LLMs could just be a natural-language wrapper around existing tools, that'd be amazing in itself. But corporivalry has made that an stillborn dream.