Plugins
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Kumar: Developer plugins will be essential to future AI interfaces
“I think that the models still need to get better basically to utilize plugins essentially in a way that's kind of reliable enough that someone will go out and look for a plugin for, you know, their kind of downstream service of choice because they just want, y…”
Louis-Lucas: ChatGPT plugins and Custom GPTs have been a failure
“They did that with plugins and then they did that with custom GPTs and I have no numbers to support what I'm going to say, but it seems to me that it's, it is a failure and that no, no, no one is, you have slight you have small use cases when you will use a cu…”
Evans: OpenAI's ChatGPT plugins and custom GPTs have clearly failed
“We also incidentally saw like part of the attempt to make this work with first of all the plugins and then GPTs, neither of which have worked clearly.”
Johari: OpenAI has evolved into a marketplace via plugins
“No one in their right mind would have thought of open AI as a marketplace. But OpenAI is a marketplace now. They may not want to call themselves a marketplace, but they have plugins. The plugins are flooding that, that platform.”
Friedberg: Software developers will build in-stream AI plugins instead of apps
“Like we used to write websites, then we wrote apps, and now we're going to write these kind of in-stream services, these plugins.”
Mikic: WordPress suffers from plugin dependencies, security breaches, and fragile updates
“Initially the problem that I had with WordPress is that it was really oriented with plugins. Like you probably know, kind of anything you want to do in WordPress, you're going to require a plugin to pay for or whatever. Like it wasn't secure, like security bre…”