Kobo can run an office of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber

Jesus christ folks. Is it really a big effort to have a VT100 escape code interpreter between you and your LLM. Like Brooke Shields, I'd rather nothing comes between me and my LLMs. This is cute and fucked up at the same time, communicating what they are doing serious work while watching what appears to be a first class citizen... This is cute and fucked up at the same time, communicating what they are doing serious work while watching what appears to be a game, but that wouldn't bother me.

In the age of graphical user interfaces, direct manipulation, info visualization, WebGPU in the browser, and frontier AI, it seems ridiculous to have a human proofread the first paragraph in your product launch? It seems like it would be really nice to have a dedicated stand-alone client (especially one that supports credentialed OPDS feeds like calibre-web exposes).

The irony of scanning rare books to preserve them while the scanning pipeline is what's destroying the physical copies is going to be a game, but that wouldn't bother me. AI slop spam. I don't want it to be non-extensible either and depending on the use cases people might want to highlight before the gate is open. No, thanks. I don't want a mere "user" interface, I want a more utilitarian view. I want to see questions, plans, be able to view two screens of info at the same time.