"Raycast is many things: it's an app launcher, it's a way to search and interact with the files on your computer, it's a note-taking app, and, yes, it's yet another way to talk to ChatGPT and other LLMs. Because it has so much access to your data and your device, though, Raycast can use these AI models to actually do things on your behalf."
"In the same way that so many companies are hoping to integrate their bots with browsers, in order to access all your history and preferences and Chrome-instilled muscle memory, Raycast thinks it can accomplish something very similar by replacing your Mac's Spotlight and your PC's Start menu. It can help you create, manage, and organize files, but it can also operate inside of any app you have installed. It can, in theory, even open up the Terminal and go wild with it."
Raycast functions as an app launcher, file searcher, note-taker, and an interface to large language models, combining deep access to user data and device capabilities. The platform leverages language models to perform actions across the system, potentially replacing Spotlight and the Start menu to create, manage, and organize files and to operate inside installed apps. The integration enables agentic behaviors, including powerful operations like opening the Terminal. Such access amplifies concerns about hallucinations, reliability, user safety, and privacy when autonomous models act directly on local files and system resources.
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