John Naughton, writing for The Guardian:
[ChatGPT] reminds me, oddly enough, of spreadsheet software, which struck the business world like a thunderbolt in 1979 when Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston wrote VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program, for the Apple II computer
Eventually, Microsoft wrote its own version and called it Excel, which now runs on every machine in every office in the developed world. It went from being an intriguing but useful augmentation of human capabilities to being a mundane accessory
Digital spreadsheets are perhaps the best example of a computational tool successfully augmenting the day-to-day work of a huge number of people. Spreadsheets have gone from nonexistent to simultaneously indispensable and mundane unbelievably quickly. If a similar augmentation occurs for prose it will be an equally, if not more, transformative development.