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You'd be surprised how many perfectly good companies are diluting their products with irrelevant AI features. When you're in an empty block in Notion the promp

You'd be surprised how many perfectly good companies are diluting their products with irrelevant AI features. When you're in an empty block in Notion the prompt puts "press space for AI" *before* "/ for commands". Totally blatant disregard for the actual useful features of the app in favor of hyping up their AI stuff.

Moru 2y ago
The programmers that has been around for a while sooner or later starts to notice a pattern. I remember some salesperson asking if we shouldn't start using XML (or some other thing he had heard, think it was XML). Not sure where he heard it but it made absolutely no sence whatsoever. We were already using XML in the backend talking to others backend services but I was trying my best to get away from it... But there was no reason he would even know what XML is. He hardly knew how to use a computer to browse the web at the time. Whatever is popular at the moment has to be used or you aren't hip and not following the times.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 2y ago
  Whenever something hip comes up, wait 5 years and see if it's still hip. If it's still hip... At least look into it.
- rsynnott 2y ago
  Oh, yeah, XML was basically the ‘AI’ of the early noughties; comic levels of hype. Remember XML databases?
  - AndrewDucker 2y ago
    We had a consultant try and sell us XML databases as something we had to start working on at once. When I asked them what the advantage was, and how it dealt with a few common circumstances they basically stuttered to a stop. It was very dissapointing.
thebytefairy 2y ago
You can email support to get this disabled. Apparently only the business version has a toggle to do it yourself. Regardless I'm much happier having disabled it now
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 2y ago
  You can see how that's effed up right? Email support to disable a "feature"?
  - rgun 2y ago
    No doubt. But I think the grand parent wanted to point out to a possible solution for anyone looking for one.

Moru 2y ago

The programmers that has been around for a while sooner or later starts to notice a pattern. I remember some salesperson asking if we shouldn't start using XML (or some other thing he had heard, think it was XML). Not sure where he heard it but it made absolutely no sence whatsoever. We were already using XML in the backend talking to others backend services but I was trying my best to get away from it... But there was no reason he would even know what XML is. He hardly knew how to use a computer to browse the web at the time. Whatever is popular at the moment has to be used or you aren't hip and not following the times.

8n4vidtmkvmk 2y ago
Whenever something hip comes up, wait 5 years and see if it's still hip. If it's still hip... At least look into it.
rsynnott 2y ago
Oh, yeah, XML was basically the ‘AI’ of the early noughties; comic levels of hype. Remember XML databases?
- AndrewDucker 2y ago
  We had a consultant try and sell us XML databases as something we had to start working on at once. When I asked them what the advantage was, and how it dealt with a few common circumstances they basically stuttered to a stop. It was very dissapointing.

thebytefairy 2y ago

You can email support to get this disabled. Apparently only the business version has a toggle to do it yourself. Regardless I'm much happier having disabled it now

8n4vidtmkvmk 2y ago
You can see how that's effed up right? Email support to disable a "feature"?
- rgun 2y ago
  No doubt. But I think the grand parent wanted to point out to a possible solution for anyone looking for one.