Chatbots are getting old — and the next wave is already here

Simon Willison is writing about what happens when the novelty of chatbots wears off and the real work begins. The piece tracks the shift from chatbots as a novelty to chatbots as infrastructure — the way we used to talk about APIs, and then they became invisible. The ones that survive are the ones that stop trying to be chatty and start doing actual work.

It is a quiet piece. No hype, no big claims. Just an honest look at the current state of the technology and where it is heading. The kind of thing that matters more than the announcements.

Why this matters for us: this is how the tools we use will change — and the ones that matter for our communities are the ones that stop talking and start doing.