What keeps feeling missing to me isn’t just better answers, it’s a sense that the thing will stay itself tomorrow. The sci-fi versions were basically characters with a stable voice and memory; real AI tools still feel more like a feature flag that gets swapped out while you’re using it.
Maybe that’s why people forgive a lot when the assistant is predictable, even if it’s not that smart. Has anyone else found they care more about consistency than raw capability?
