For most of my real tasks the answer lives across three or four apps. A single 'what do i tell this customer' pulls from gmail, a drive doc, and a slack thread, and not one of those is the chat window i'm typing the question into.
i asked chatgpt and slack ai the same thing and both gave the architectural shrug: no access to your computer, no access to the other app. fair, that's just where they run. but it leaves me as the courier carrying context between tabs.
the thing that actually moved the needle was a desktop app (Runner) that sits on the mac and reads gmail, drive, and slack inside the same task instead of waiting for me to paste. It asks before anything goes out, which is the only reason i let it near a live thread. the chat window keeps winning the benchmark and losing the actual job.
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