Comment by dang

> Why would anyone use AI to write a simple email like that!?

Pete and I discussed this when we were going over an earlier draft of his article. You're right, of course—when the prompt is harder to write than the actual email, AI is overkill at best.

The way I understand it is that it's the email reading example which is actually the motivated one. If you scroll a page or so down to "A better email assistant", that's the proof-of-concept widget showing what an actually useful AI-powered email client might look like.

The email writing examples are there because that's the "horseless carriage" that actually exists right now in Gmail/Gemini integration.