Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession

FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• 4am@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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

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  • kogasa@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Windows has never even slightly pretended to follow that guideline

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And that’s why it’s awful

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• btaf45@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It sounds awful. The draw of notepad is its simplicity. I wish software companies would stop ruining their good versions of popular software.

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  • FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We haven't seen how this feature will be implemented yet, it could be done without impacting the simplicity of Notepad.

    Personally, what I'd like is a button that pops open a side window where I could either ask the AI questions about the text that's currently in Notepad or tell it to make edits to the text, and it'll just do that. Seems like it could be perfectly straightforward if it's something along these lines, and if you don't want to use the feature you just don't.

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    • freebee@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s near impossible. It will bloat notepad, at the very least. Longer loading, more chances of crashing, creating unnecessary data-traffic… literally no one using notepad in the last 25 years needed any of this, they used it for it’s simplicity, speed, reliability, all of which it becomes less with features like these. Put that shit in word and o365, where it belongs.

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      • FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The technology hasn't existed until this year, so Notepad's last 25 years of usage patterns don't really mean much to it.

        If you don't want it creating data traffic, don't use the feature.

        And don't put words in my mouth. I would love to try out something like this and could well find it quite useful, depending on the details of how it works. So "literally no one" falls flat right there, I'm a counterexample.

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