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I'm not talking about programmers using LLMs. I'm talking about people talking in english to an AI on one screen, and compiled functioning programs appearing o

I'm not talking about programmers using LLMs. I'm talking about people talking in english to an AI on one screen, and compiled functioning programs appearing on the other. An "app playground" where you just tell your phone what you need an app to do, and a new bespoke app is now in your app draw. Forget about UIs too. They won't be that important. You don't need a tree of options and menus, tool bars and buttons. You would just tell the program what you want it to do..."Don't put my signature on this email"..."wrap the text around this image properly"(cough msword cough)..."split these two parts and move the red one to the top layer"...or even "Create a button that does this and place it over there".

kurthr 2y ago
I'll accept that you could get an IfThisThenThat implementation that might let you get some home automation done. Of course, if you can't build an ITTT to start with, you'll have a horrible time debugging it, or even remembering to turn it off. The create a magic button thing though is exactly the terrible UI I'm talking about. I think part of what you want is voice applications, because deleting your signature by hand is probably easier than trying to build a program that does it. Maybe the app could just search help and tell you what feature already does what you're asking for. Certainly, context sensitive voice recognition has gotten a LOT better with the latest LLMs. Not sure I'm looking forward to the guy on the train narrating to his laptop for an excel page, though.