Maybe one positive outcome of this AI bubble:
The one good thing that could come of this latest #AI craze is that finally people are getting used to the idea that their computer can do more for them than just follow simple point-and-click or touch-and-swipe commands. The computer can actually do more intelligent things for you.
The thing is, computers have always been able to do “intelligent” things for you, since the first mainstream commercial GUIs of the 1980s. You have always had the ability to just open up a command line and enter commands, or open up a BASIC interpreter and enter a program, and have its commands affect the GUI environment in which you are working. You can still do that nowadays with the POSIX shell (e.g. #Bash or #Zsh), and with tools that facilitate the use of command lines like #Emacs and #Vim . People think #LLMs can do that for them now, but if you learn the computer language yourself, you can control the computer yourself without needing to trust an AI to get it right for you, which it often does not.
So really, us app developers need to rebrand the idea of a command line as a “chat log,” rebrand scripting as “AI.” Thanks to AI, now maybe ordinary tech consumers may finally see the virtue of having interactive notebooks, and demanding notebook features in more of their apps. People don’t want to learn shell scripting, but if you package shell scripting as “AI,” you can get ordinary consumers to demand it of you.