Rui Carmo
Pete Koomen’s essay takes aim at the current crop of AI apps by comparing them to “horseless carriages” – a neat metaphor for tools that lean too heavily on outdated thinking.
He points out that Gmail’s AI email draft generator misses the mark by forcing a one-size-fits-all tone and then, for an encore, he goes and does an almost perfect common sense prototype that puts a lot more control in the hands of the user.
Letting people customize behavior rather than defaulting to slop is definitely a much better way to use AI, and I’d be here for it if people were actually doing it.