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I like how currently on LinkedIn there’s a feature to use AI writing assistance to help land your next job. Like if I can’t write how am I ever going to work a job
Software companies want to shove AI everywhere because it's the shiny new thing. Hardware companies love it because they can finally have a way to fight the "it's good enough for email and browsing" argument to sell us more hardware.
And yet, weirdly, MS have chosen to just make it their entire personality at this point. There has, for a number of years, been a move away from Windows to macOS and Linux for devs. I suspect this will start to accelerate because people don't want tools that are obnoxiously omnipresent. Carpenters have various ways to keep their most used tools at hand, but you don't see them wearing a charm bracelet of every tool th…
Seriously, no one writes with Notepad. It's just for quick copy-paste text manipulation. That's it. No need for gen-AI.
I used Notepad to make simple HTML pages back in 1995 - maybe, two dozen lines of "" and "". That's the most text I've ever written in Notepad.
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Disable flag? No no, the choices are "Enable" and "Maybe later"
I think it would be much easier and faster to just give the users one option. That way, they don't need to think about what they want and can focus on their work. (satire)
Why do writing tools have to be a feature of every app instead of an operating-system wide tool like Apple Intelligence? Makes no sense whatsoever to just "sprinkle AI everywhere" except for specialized use cases.
Microsoft really don't know what they're doing. They're trying to throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks without thinking of any externalities such as people getting pissed off and leaving to other platforms.