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by rtpg 696 days ago
I am confused as to why it's more undiscoverable than, say, some LLM.

> The problem is the space of possible commands is waaaaay bigger than the space of commands you can manually handle, which means if you just randomly try stuff 95% of the time it won't work. Users learn that very quickly and end up sticking to the few commands they know work.

This is not strictly true. Context free grammars can be written to handle (finite) sentences of arbitrary length! if you have a rule like "play me <song>" and then <song> can be "a song that lasts longer than X" or "a song by <artist>" (then you have <artist> be "<some name>" or "some German singer" or whatever....). You can just keep on going.