• Fishbone@lemmy.world
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        Dunno if I’m misunderstanding you or you’re misunderstanding the person you replied to, but Notepad++ is a third party program unaffiliated with windows or notepad. It’s also an astronomical step up from notepad and it’s free and has optional plugins and whatnot.

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    The fuck? This must be on Win 11. My Notepad still has to be told whether to search Down or Up, just like in 1990.

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    Why are they adding this to Notepad rather than Word?

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      I’d guess the codebase that keeps Word running is so convoluted by now they have trouble shoehorning it in.

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      Enterprise would riot if they did.

      They might do it later, but as it stands, this isn’t the old notepad, and gets used by a good bit more than just Enterprise users, so they can stick their AI into it.

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    Forgetting about the intrusion of shitty LLMs everywhere for a while… Who the fuck even uses notepad for something they would need redacted?

    It’s not a actual writing tool, it’s a basic text file editor.

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      Of course subscription

      Didn’t you know that AI can only run on servers?

      /S, of course

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      Personally I don’t use Notepad for writing writing. Its a functional writing app. A app for copying and pasting code, or making a list, or crude ascii art. If I need to bold something, or do text formatting, thats when I open up the several orders of magnitude larger office apps.

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        That’s another issue, but I agree. I was just addressing the idea that this is what people need to help them be better writers.

        All this will do is to teach them how to better write specific sentences. If they even read the suggestion before using it.

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      Yeah. I hate reading “essays” generated by an AI.
      Keep it short for better reader experience.

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        Everytime I see a commercial where someone uses AI to make something larger and embellish and such, I think of the other commercials where people use the same AI to summarize it for them.

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        There’s a place for more formal writing.

        But the point of using precise, formal language is the intent behind it. If you’re just RNG-ing it it loses all meaning.

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      Exactly. I write well enough. I only use AI if I’m just stuck for words and want to get a suggestion. Sometimes it’s good enough, sometimes it’s way off base, but was enough kick to get things going in my brain.

      I’d appreciate some added AI to give suggestions occasionally, but it needs to be implemented well. I hate when Word tells me to phrase something differently as if it 100% correct. No, I worded it that way because that’s how I want to say it.

      The real damage will be when everybody starts sounding alike because there are defined acceptable ways to say things.

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    It assists with refining your writing by rephrasing your sentences, modifying your tone, and tweaking the length of your text based on your preferences.

    I don’t remember when was the last time I wrote a full sentence in Notepad yet alone needed an Ai redaction. Because it’s a fucking notepad! It’s for writing notes not essays!