A lot of products are "semantic sugar" for saving a click or two. It's a big difference if something is included in an OS or app vs having to know about it, switch context to it and using it every time. Would you use reader mode if you always had to switch to another app and paste the content? Would you use bookmarks as often if you have to click 4 times instead of dragging it into the menu bar?
This applies for this AI feature, but also for any other feature in general.
> Would you use reader mode if you always had to switch to another app and paste the content?
I don't use reader mode to begin with.
> Would you use bookmarks as often if you have to click 4 times instead of dragging it into the menu bar?
Absolutely -- that's what I currently do. I don't keep my bookmarks in the browser, because I want to be able to access them from any browser from anywhere. So I use an independent bookmark server instead. Adding a new bookmark takes three clicks (four if I have to manually browse to my server first).
It's a minor inconvenience that the benefits more than compensate for.
The point is not that nobody ever would reach to other workflows but that the majority of people will stick the defaults (https://www.nngroup.com/articles/the-power-of-defaults/) and also don't install a lot of third party apps.
HN is of course a very different bubble and very different to how regular people use computers or the internet.
This applies for this AI feature, but also for any other feature in general.