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by munificent 3728 days ago
> Surely an UI with controls specific to the task at hand is much better than having the user guess what the bot responds to and what it can do?

A well-designed and well-implemented UI is better, yes. But I think where this could be useful is for the many customers who don't have the cash to make a decent app. A stripped down chat interaction could end up more usable than what they'd build from scratch.

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The value is in making a legitimate platform for the lowly CLI app then. I like it :)