HTML emails were there before, but I agree that fast UI and threads was a step up from Yahoo or Hotmail. Labels instead of folders, username+wildcard@ email addresses, filters (at least the UX was better than traditional rules). They also enabled POP and IMAP. IIRC, IMAP used to be a premium feature for email providers at that time.
I’m not sure about revolution, but e-mail can certainly be evolved.
20 years ago, not as many emails were sent, especially transactional emails. User behavior has evolved since then.
For example, storing email receipt of a random Amazon order from 2 years ago doesn’t make much sense these days.
Hey has addressed some of these changes, but there is a lot of room for improvement.
To be fair, if the GPT creator doesn’t do a good job of explaining the GPT, you can’t really tell even if you pay $20. The only way is to try out the GPT and hope you hit the right features. Chat is a pretty bad interface to discover features.
I end up creating multiple threads “frontend”, “backend”, etc. but a GPT for the whole project is a great idea!
How do you keep the GPT updated so that it knows about the final decision made for a specific problem. Like if api schema changes or the db is moved from SQLite to Postgres.
Agreed, but Gen AI already has a lot of use cases, the challenges are with “taming” the technology - Rare hallucinations, RAG (or equivalent) figured out, more deterministic.
Assuming some of these challenges are solved, integrations will follow.
Imagine the web before CSS, JS, AJAX. That’s where we are with Gen AI.
No doubt Gen AI has lots of use cases. I'm just not sure if the use cases can lift the entire IT sector for the next N years like mobile or e-commerce used to do.
~13B models should work well with plenty of room for other applications. Lately, I’ve heard good things about Solar10B, but new models come in a dozen by day, so it might have already been changed.
I’m not sure about revolution, but e-mail can certainly be evolved.
20 years ago, not as many emails were sent, especially transactional emails. User behavior has evolved since then.
For example, storing email receipt of a random Amazon order from 2 years ago doesn’t make much sense these days.
Hey has addressed some of these changes, but there is a lot of room for improvement.