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am I the only one who remembers that his name was "Clippit"?
Plagiarizing a comment of mine from another post: In general, cutesy UIs are fun only the very first time you use them. But they’re a liability in the long term because once the novelty of the cuteness wears off, you risk really annoying your users, especially in high-stress scenarios. Expanding on that: Clippy is endearing now because it hasn't annoyed anyone for a decade+, but it was a real nuisance — difficult to…
In the same way, I really dislike using references to popular movies or characters in code samples or sample projects, esp. if it is the official docs for a framework or something similar. I see a ton of "battle of superheroes" kinds of apps that try to demonstrate cool stuff, like deploying distributed applications over multiple clouds/k8s distributions, using serverless, Istio, and who knows what. But I just can't…
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I loved it so much that in 2005 for my CompSci final project I created a search assistant, using the agent builder tool, C# and the Google API.
I think it should come back as a personal AI agent.
When Office XP launched in about 2001 Microsoft had a comedy microsite all about Clippy being forced to retire (the angle being that XP was so easy to use he was no longer needed). It was entirely based around the idea that everyone was sick of clippy. They had a couple of flash animations (the contemporary equivalent of a viral video), recorded here for posterity. Clippy was voiced by Gilbert Gottfried Part 1: https…