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by lxgr 1141 days ago
But what if I don't know what I want?

A graphical UI can provide much more and much more intuitive guidance than a chat input ever will. And I say that as a big fan of Unix and the shell.

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You can ask it. You can explain your problem and ask how it might be able to help. You can discuss and narrow down with some back and forth what it is you want to do.

I could tell a chat bot I am finding the horizontal split in my editor is annoying because I have a wide monitor, and have it tell me there's a setting for that and ask if I want the default changed.

With a gui I might have to go through the files menu for settings, check if it's in edit-preferences, check tools-options, before maybe having to find out online it's if it's in some settings file.

> You can discuss and narrow down with some back and forth what it is you want to do.

To be honest, I find systems that support only this kind of interface infuriating.

Imagine arriving in an unknown city: Being able to ask helpful locals for directions is nice, but sometimes I just want to look at a map.