Clearly I didn't express myself well. In the new shortcuts app, there's a pretty clear view of what siri can do. Basically any text editing you want (someone e

Clearly I didn't express myself well. In the new shortcuts app, there's a pretty clear view of what siri can do. Basically any text editing you want (someone even made a C parser) There's a fairly concise list of areas. With a 10 second skim, you can get a sense of "oh, Siri can be taught to do stuff in these areas" In the same way you wouldn't necessarily know what a dog could do without a little outside research (per their theory of mind dog example) Meanwhile, with ios 12 all apps will be able to add prominent "add to siri" shortcuts in their apps. So as you use an app, you'll see "ahh, Siri can be trained to work with this all in this way" Then these can be chained together. So you can now get a fairly clear general idea of what may be possible. You still need to learn details to do specific training, but this seems like a big step up, and closer to the dog example. You can at least form a theory of what Siri can likely be taught to do. Not a PA yet, but to me this new iteration is at least graspable.