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> increase the number of quinoa packets to two.

That seems so convoluted, what about "Add two quinoa packs".

I have to disagree with the calendar example as well. Natural language is already great at many use cases. For example: "Remind me to put the recycling bin in the driveway on the last Tuesday of each month."

I don't think GPTs will replace GUIs, merely add more ways to interact with them.

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"Add two quinoa packs" is more cognitively loaded (particularly for non native eng speakers) than the act of tapping on + to increase by 1.

Similarly, for calendar you are missing the author's point - we are spatially trained - Ex. concept of memory palace [1]. Totally agree with author on "We know that our schedule is "full" because we see lots of space occupied by boxes."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci

OP here. Thanks for bringing up memory palaces! They're a great example of how important our sense of space is for understanding anything!

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