boem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoNot even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsessionwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareFaceDeer@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoI don’t understand all the negativity. An integrated AI assistant in a text editor sounds like it could be amazing.
minus-square4am@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoSometimes, programs just need to be simple. Put that AI shit in Word, notepad is supposed to be a plain text editor and it did so quite well. “Do one thing and do it very well” - Unix philosophy
minus-squareKogasa@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoWindows has never even slightly pretended to follow that guideline
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·8 months agoAnd that’s why it’s awful
I don’t understand all the negativity. An integrated AI assistant in a text editor sounds like it could be amazing.
Sometimes, programs just need to be simple.
Put that AI shit in Word, notepad is supposed to be a plain text editor and it did so quite well.
“Do one thing and do it very well” - Unix philosophy
Windows has never even slightly pretended to follow that guideline
And that’s why it’s awful