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Sure. But my point is, we don't know how many companies are using AI where everything's working fine. We're only seeing some of the failures, we're not seeing the successes. So we can't draw general conclusions from these specific examples.

What do they think the odds are if we don't develop AI?

Do you really need an integrated big-brother Clippy again?

You're making some pretty big assumptions about what this feature will be like.

Heh. More semantics.

I saw it, and I said "yes please I'd like that." That's asking.

No, I'm annoyed that you're assuming that your view of this matter is the only one, and are insisting that Notepad should exclude any features that you don't want even though it likely wouldn't harm you if they were included.

I'm perfectly fine with people not using AI. I'm not perfectly fine with people jumping in and telling me "and you don't get to use it either!"

The fact that Notepad is really old shouldn't be an argument that it should never change.

I genuinely haven’t seen a single person ANYWHERE EVER say “boy howdy I sure do wish notepad had more features, maybe an AI cowriter!”.

I'm saying it right now. I've said it repeatedly in the course of this thread, in comments that you are posting direct responses to. I explicitly said in the previous comment, and the comment before it, that I wanted this. How are you not understanding this?

If that’s something you really actually wanted before you heard about this,

Ah, I see where you're trying to weasel out a technical "I was right all along" - you're going to say that because I hadn't specifically said "in Notepad" about this before seeing that Windows was planning on adding this to Notepad, my interest in this new feature is somehow invalid and my previous comments are lies or something. Not "genuine." You'll imagine that I hadn't thought about how nice it would be to have an AI cowriter in some kind of text editor before now, and that even now I'm... I don't know, why do you think I'm arguing that this would be beneficial if I don't actually want to use it? I can't think of why you might imagine I'm arguing this, maybe I'm some kind of shill for Big AI?

And then you accuse me of "dying on a stupid hill for semantics."

it’s unnecessary bloat that no one asked for!

I wish people would stop putting words in my mouth. I would be quite happy to try this feature out, and I think it could be quite handy indeed. I literally said "I want to see Microsoft try it" in the comment you're responding to.

I’m completely off windows now anyways, so I don’t even have skin in the game.

So what's your problem? Don't insist that everyone has to share your values and run their computers the way you would want to run them.

I just linked to a whole pile of notepad clone projects. I'm sure some of them will satisfy whatever preferences any particular person has. "Why not just clone notepad" applies just as much to the people complaining about this features, and it's already been done. If you want to stick with the unchanging bare minimum text editor, there they are.

I think I'd remember wearing a sweatshirt, and I'm not at all into indie music, so that must have been someone else.

I'm mostly deer so I guess I don't get invited to humanity's all-hands meetings where decisions like this get made. :(

The amount of code required client-side for interacting with an AI's API is a few hundred lines at most. I've done it myself, with actual real software projects, so I know how this works. There's no reason to expect that AI integration would cause Notepad to become significantly larger.

Microsoft might make other changes, sure, but that's a separate issue.

Many people did, but humanity is not a hive mind. "We all" never agree on anything with 100% unanimity.

Not exactly. The LGPL inherits the methods of conveying source code from section 6 of the GPL, which has a number of different options. You can bundle the source code along with the compiled version, but you can also do it simply by including an offer the end user can redeem to get a copy of the source. For example you could include a link to the source code.