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Would you want it if it offered you control and transparency?

Like, how would you feel about someone taking care of the heavy lifting of API integration and GUI automation and then letting you as an individual choose how to extend or automate your workflow? Like through a developer API? Perhaps connectable to AI models with transparent inputs and outputs and that you can override or customize yourself?

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I don't expect to be made that offer, so the point is somewhat moot. I might pay for it but it won't be available because the company offering the $100/month subscription that has those characteristics will be annihilated in the market by the company selling it for $9.99/month, if not free, and covering every square inch in advertising and "nudges" for sale.

I have a whole rant about GUIs that includes as a subset how Appletalk was still a good idea and I wish GUIs would have doubled down on that rather than writing it off, but that's a separate topic.

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