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Re: Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now

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Post by daemin » Tue, Nov 12, 2024, 11:54 AM UTC

sebazzz wrote: post #183

ActionHank wrote: post #102

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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…

It seems like every product manager (or program manager) or maybe all the way down to staff have got “incorporating AI” as some kind of KPI - on which your performance is measured.

It's as if it's the company's mission.

Re: Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now

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Post by daemin » Tue, Nov 12, 2024, 12:13 PM UTC

bityard wrote: post #144

elpocko wrote: post #65

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It's basically autocomplete, spellcheck and refactoring, just based on a new technical approach. Those are not new or unusual features for a text editor.

I always liked the phrase "spicy autocomplete" as a way of (over)simplifying how LLMs work.

Glorified Markov Chain Text Generator.

Re: Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now

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Post by iknowstuff » Tue, Nov 12, 2024, 3:20 PM UTC

goosedragons wrote: post #391

iknowstuff wrote: post #211

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My main OS is macOS but I use Windows for gaming. The reliance on crusty old ass applications like those on Windows is actually kinda depressing. Everything newer is garbage for various reasons, and everything old is ugly as hell. Macs have Pixelmator and Preview for images, Apple Notes is actually very decent for actual notes, Zed for nerdy text files, QuickTime/IINA for video (or hell even VLC looks much nicer than…

Pixelmator is over 15 years old, Preview predates OS X as it was a part of NeXTStep.

To be clear, i’m not saying they’re new, but rather that they are beautiful because they have been continuously modernized to match the look and functionality of the OS.

Re: Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now

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Post by LoveMortuus » Wed, Nov 13, 2024, 12:24 PM UTC

reginald78 wrote: post #186

LoveMortuus wrote: post #127

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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)

We A/B tested this and found the acceptance numbers really went up.

My guess would be that there's probably some correlation between lass choice and decision fatigue.

Whenever I go grocery shopping it always takes me quite a while to decide which rice is worth my hard earned money and which isn't, especially because some rice makes my tiny rice cooker to start foaming all over.