Coding agents now beat macOS Spotlight at getting things done, VCs observe
saranormous · x · 2026-11-05
saranormous notes an ironic sign of the times: it's now easier and more effective to ask Codex or Claude to do something on a Mac than to use the system's built-in Spotlight — a telling observation about how natural-language AI agents are outpacing native OS tooling in everyday usability.
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