Strong agreement on this one. I’ve been referring to this as a UI/UX cul de sac to anyone who’ll listen for a while now.

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42934190#42935946

What if apps published a declarative interface for context specific commands? Conversational interfaces would glue together spoken instructions with sensible matches from the set of available contextual interfaces.

2001: A Space Odyssey was the original case against conversational interfaces.

I was recently at a cafe using the computer in Argentina, and I was thinking it would be impossible to use a voice interface here. Everyone chatting so loud I could barely hear my own thoughts.

The author seems to ignore the main case for conversational interfaces - which is not to replace the software, but the software user.

Not telling your car to turn left or right, but telling your cab driver you're going to the airport.

This is our usecase at our startup[1] - we want to enable tiny SMBs who didn't have the budget to hire a "video guy", to get an experience similar to having one. And that's why we're switching to a conversational UX (because those users would normally communicate with the "video guy" or girl by sending them a Whatsapp message, not by clicking buttons on the video software)

[1] https://www.onetake.ai

> “This is it! The next computing paradigm is here! We’ll only use natural language going forward!”

Is anyone actually making any argument like that? The whole piece feels like a giant strawman.

The way I think is in-band vs. out-of-band control. The former is initially convenient but can blow up in surprising ways and remains a source of security issues.

Anyone know how to figure out the web stack for this blog? Its elegant, minimal, and has enough support for some rich elements which add to the experience.

shameless plug here but we have been building in a similar space. We call it tabtabtab.ai - https://tabtabtab.ai/

The core loop is promptless ai that’s guided by accessibility x screenshots & it’s everywhere on your Mac.

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