[fnord77]

Was this generated by AI?

Anyway, I dispute that there's "zero switching" costs to go from proprietary keyboard shortcuts to english sentences as the interface.

In the bloomberg example, the shortcuts are precise. LLM's responses are not always what you want.

Imagine being a vim or emacs user and have those replaced by something you have to type entire sentences for functionality.

"Public Data Access → Commoditized"

Also, no. Today I tried to have gemini pro give me some data from wikipedia for a list of countries that I supplied. It gave me data and source links, but the numbers were all wrong! I would have zero confidence in this for anything serious.

[xfour]

Even if it wasn't generated by AI, it reads like an advertisement for some company which sure sounds like a wrapper on top of a LLM. I think the moat for that type of company is a lot less defensible than any of the Vertically Integrated category leaders by a country mile.

[nickysielicki]

> Imagine being a vim or emacs user and have those replaced by something you have to type entire sentences for functionality.

This has already happened for a non-negligible amount of people on this site. I still use magit to prepare commits and review diffs. Everything else is English and Claude code or opencode.

Ironically, part of the reason I like emacs and formerly liked vim was because it reduced the amount of time my hands had to leave the keyboard. I simply look where I want to type, press the chord to jump with avy, and then begin typing. New tools are spiritually aligned with this goal. I look at the screen, I think about what I don’t like, and now instead of translating the criticism into code changes, I just stream my thoughts directly into the tool.

[johntb86]

> Imagine being a vim or emacs user and have those replaced by something you have to type entire sentences for functionality.

As a former vim user who uses cursor, I've found that as the models get better I'm typing less and less. I appreciate the vim key bindings, but eventually I can imagine not missing them.

[followben]

So many hallmarks of LLM authorship (the arrows, the framing, the unnecessary fluff, the big important-sounding words). Not to mention the vested interests of the author. Let’s just call it what it is: bullshit. No signal, just noise.