the take that 'ai doesn't do anything useful yet' held up for me until i ditched the chat window

Counted it last week: one monday review had me opening 6 apps and copy-pasting between all of them, while a chatbot sat in a 7th tab handing me summaries i still had to go act on. that's the part the 'ai is useless' crowd is actually right about. text out, the work is still on you. what moved me off that take wasn't a smarter model. it was dropping the chat window for a desktop agent that reads gmail, calendar and slack inside the same task and takes the next step itself, with a permission prompt before each action so it isn't running wild.