App settings menus have grown into the Yellow Pages of software — a maze of toggles and sliders nobody actually wants to navigate. LLM-backed assistants suggest a way out: instead of digging for the dark-mode toggle, you tell the assistant "dark theme, no notifications during work, max privacy" and it walks the settings on your behalf.
The full post argues this is the next CLI-to-GUI-style shift — settings as conversation rather than form — and what app developers and AI researchers need to get right (privacy, bias, reliability) for that transition not to fall on its face.
Originally published at andreasbergstrom.dev — read the full post there.
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