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This seems to be a common trend everywhere. Instead of improving core functionality they add the latest buzzword tech, no matter it make sense or not. I am user
by rqtwteye 2y ago
This seems to be a common trend everywhere. Instead of improving core functionality they add the latest buzzword tech, no matter it make sense or not. I am user of GaiaGPS to plan outdoors trips. Same there: the app is good but has some problems. Instead of fixing the problems they added social functionality which nobody really wants.
- brianjlogan 2y agoThis is your tried and true. C level read a magazine, mandatory implementation order, engineer ticks the checkbox and waits for hype to pass so they can remove it.
- reaperducer 2y agoC level read a magazine, mandatory implementation order A magazine would be an improvement. I worked in a place where the owners were very susceptible to airport billboard ads. Every time they came back from a trip, we would brace for change.
- JohnFen 2y agoA scary version of this is driven home to me when I go to Washington DC and see all of the very expensive billboards at commuter stations near the Pentagon advertising fighter jets and other military equipment. It scares me every time because they wouldn't be splashing out the big bucks for those billboards if they weren't effective, and I absolutely don't want the military (or any other entity engaging in major expenditures) to be making those decisions based on billboards.
- zh3 2y agoAKA the Beltway Bandits [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway_bandit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway_bandit
- bombcar 2y ago> I worked in a place where the owners were very susceptible to airport billboard ads. This explains why airports are entirely covered in ads that seem to be aimed at C-level execs only (nobody else gives a shit).
- dfxm12 2y agoThis is why I shudder whenever I see a Workday ad during a football game.
- thegrim33 2y agoI guess it's a good signal for when a niche is opening for someone to develop a better product. That's probably a reason why competitors like onX have sprung up recently. (Although I haven't used onX so I don't know if it's actually better or not.) Also with Gaia it feels like very single year they just have to tweak and change the interface to the point where nothing is easy or intuitive anymore. It's like designers need to justify their jobs so they just keep making change on top of change and departing from what made sense, just to make changes, just to be doing something.
- hulitu 2y ago> I guess it's a good signal for when a niche is opening for someone to develop a better product better is the enemy of good. /s
- rqtwteye 2y agoI have tried OnX and Caltopo and I think for Gaia is still the best. If they just fixed their folder management. It makes me angry every time I have to use it.
- snarfy 2y agoNobody got promoted for improving core functionality.
- jacobr1 2y agoPeople get promoted for improving key metrics. Like Revenue or Retention or Installs or whatever. Metrics can be abused and gamed ... but you can do a better job aligning them to improvement than the de-facto metrics of "number buzzwords in a new shiny toy"
- reaperducer 2y agoNobody got promoted for improving core functionality. It depends on the company. If you work for a hyper-scale tech company that only cares about money money money, then yeah -- nobody's getting promoted for improving core functionality. But I've worked at several companies where that sort of thing is not only rewarded, but celebrated. One was a factory. Another was healthcare. Tech is the aberation, but on HN we pretend that it's normal and good.
- bruce511 2y agoHang on - notepad is the perfect place for a "rewrite my text" feature. And clearly its a useful too in a writing app that users would like. I get your complaint in general, but it does not seem like this is a good example of throwing random unrelated stuff in.
- lupusreal 2y agoLast I saw, notepad didn't even have a spell checker. LLM integration seems very out of place in such an otherwise minimal editor.
- kgeist 2y agoAn LLM can technically fix spelling
- dangerwill 2y agoChatGPT still thinks Mississippi has an R in it sometimes.
- hulitu 2y agoIt depends how you look at it. /s
- croisillon 2y agothat used to be so hard to spell, it used to make me cry, but since I’ve studied spelling it’s just like pumpkin pie
- gnabgib 2y agoIt recently gained a spellcheck (4 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40907284 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40907284
- 1234letshaveatw 2y ago
- SubiculumCode 2y agowhiplash response, imo. Text editors have had how long again to work on improving core functionality?
- croisillon 2y agooooo social functionality in notepad! good idea!
- 0xf00ff00f 2y agoSame as Strava, now it has a completely pointless AI assistant.
- mikercampbell 2y agoI’ve loved/hated it taking over IDEs. The refactor lightbulb icon popover slowly losing features to “fix with copilot” has been draining
- evilduck 2y agoWhy not just spend the one time cost of the approximately four seconds it takes to remove Copilot and save yourself from feeling drained if it's that upsetting? This is right below the level of effort involved in changing the theme and setting the font in your IDE.
- kjrfghslkdjfl 2y ago[dead]
- jjcm 2y ago> Instead of improving core functionality Maybe taking a step back here, what core functionality is missing from notepad? I see this as a fairly feature complete tool for a core set of behaviors already.
- hulitu 2y agoTelemetry ? Hamburger menu ? No scrollbars ? /s The possibilities are infinite.
- SnorkelTan 2y agoThe chips are improving. They are adding dedicated AI co-processors/cores. Every major chip developer is moving towards providing functionality that supports running AI models locally on chip. Eventually all of these use cases will be run locally, fast, and power efficiently w/o network hops. Waiting until that happens to develop these features puts you ages behind everyone else. It's just another iteration of the thin-client to fat client product cycle, and for AI, it's very early.