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altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days agoThis was time consuming, so when features like T9 Predictive Text came along it really helped improve texting in the pre-smartphone era.
That’s brave to print that on Lemmy in times of LLMs, I give you that. It’s 20 years late too argue about that, but I do miss convenience of reliably printing whole paragraphs without even looking.
jqubed@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I mean I think it was basically a dictionary lookup, nothing like the negatives we see with today’s LLMs
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Yup. But that assistance in retrospect feels like the first time we encountered something alike. It prints faster for you but it needs a constant supervision, so you end up glued to the screen, fixing the results. I recall printing a long word with t9, and it followed me for 6 letters, but completely changed the word at the 7th letter to something else entirely, because it’s dictionary didn’t have my word in it, or it thought it’s not as popular. Less control, more attention, frequent fuck ups. It’s close in UX to what I personally getting now.