Nathan Labenz: belief

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…Building your own UI is really powerful. I feel like most of the energy is not there. You know, there's Cloud Code and there's Cowork and there's Codex and Gemini, you know, like anti-gravity. So there's all these different tools for coding and for more general agentic workflows and there's Cowork and the other tools that integrate into you, but they're all things you throw commands at. And That works really well for a big task. Go write this app or go, you know, reformat these 800 PDFs or whatever. But it doesn't work very well for tiny actions like you were just talking about, you know, go find this one file or whatever. Like, you're not going to tell... It's annoying for you to have to go and open the file directory and navigate down and find the file, but it's not really going to be any faster for you to prompt co-work or whatever to do that. So when you've got all the little tiny fine grain things that we all do every day, it's hard to get value out of agentic tools, whether they're command line or otherwise, but where you can get value is in a UI. And yeah, so I think that's sort of the other, like we're all like, we're getting, like everybody's leaning into these tools for verbs, go to an action, but you know, an app is sort of the noun side of it and that's, That's less explored. Chrome extension also is another one that jumps out at me as like, mine's probably different than yours, but there's definitely got to be. And I took this note from Zvi, too, but I still haven't acted on it because he's also got a Chrome extension that he uses to, I think, also collect notes and reformat and move things around. I've seen him mention that. His is probably more sophisticated than mine. Seeing the format of his newsletters, you can imagine exactly what he's doing. I'm sure that's a big time-saver. I have a bunch of little Chrome extensions. Every time I join a Google Meet, I need to switch accounts because it always opens on the wrong account. Then I always want to hide my own window, and then you need to acknowledge that your video is still being sent. There's just five buttons I have to click every time I join a meeting. I built a Chrome extension that clicks the five buttons for me and it saves me 15 seconds, three times a day. Took a couple minutes to write. It's awesome.…

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