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Computers Doing the Right Thing
- gumby 5y agoI admire their objective but as a former DWIM user I hated it (I also disable autocorrect on my Apple devices). Part of it is simply that I prefer determinism from my devices and some of it is the “damn you autocorrect” phenomenon. Unfortunately, in Interlisp-D DWIM could not be disabled without also disabling macro expansion! I am perfectly content with “autocorrect” with my dog or with other humans.
- miki123211 5y agoIn my opinion, there are three elements to any such automatic behavior. 1. How often does the behavior go wrong. Are there cases where the behavior goes wrong much more often than usual? You can also interpret this as "how often does the behavior break user expectations, even when it technically goes right". 2. If it goes wrong, how disastrous / irritating the consequences are (from the perspective of the user)? 3. How easy it is to recover from a wrong prediction. If the product of those three factors get too high, the behavior is more irritating than helping. Sometimes a suggestion is a much better option than invoking the behavior itself.