Some of us have been waiting our whole lives for a comprehensive DWIM command.

> DWIM is an embodiment of the idea that the user is interacting with an agent who attempts to interpret the user's request from contextual information. Since we want the user to feel that he is conversing with the system, he should not be stopped and forced to correct himself or give additional information in situations where the correction or information is obvious. [0]

— Teitelman and his Xerox PARC colleague Larry Masinter, Xerox PARC, in 1981

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWIM

IMO, many such people, unfortunately, are prone to forget to state the addendum NWIS to express their true hope: Do What I Mean, Not What I Said.

And this is kind of terrifying to me, in the context of an LLM that is working completely based on What You Said and any ability to Do What You Mean has to come from murky associations in the training data.

It is more than kind of terrifying when this is then extended to scenarios requiring novel analysis and problem solving, rather than just performing a repetitive, idiomatic task for the N+1th time.