AI Overlay UI in Tauri — Designing the "Ask AI" Button That Doesn't Annoy Users

All tests run on an 8-year-old MacBook Air. All results from shipping 7 Mac apps as a solo developer. No sponsored opinion. Every app has an AI button now. Most of them are annoying. Here's how I approach AI UI in my Tauri apps. The problem with most AI UI The bad pattern: a prominent "Ask AI" button that's always visible, always tempting users to click it, and produces results that take 3 seconds to load with a full-screen loading state. The result: users click once, wait, get a mediocre respon