it’s just chatgpt

we have this instinct to make sense of new tech by comparing it to what we already know. every breakthrough needs a familiar label: “it’s the new browser,” “it’s the new os,” “it’s the next big platform.” but ai, real, disruptive ai doesn’t fit into any of those boxes. trying to make it fit only limits how we think about it.

openai gets this. they don’t call chatgpt a search engine, a browser, or an os. they don’t lean on the crutch of old tech metaphors. because this stuff is fundamentally different. it’s not just a better version of something we already have. it’s a new plane of interaction, a layer that permeates everything we do rather than sitting neatly on top of existing structures.

why is this distinction important?