"Hi there! It seems like you're trying to write something slightly more difficult than what you're really capable of. I'll sit here and make passive aggressive comments about your non-American spelling and the passive voice until you realise that you're probably not as good a writer as you seem to think you are."
It was like writing with your Mother making helpful suggestions.
I have just joined an online Microsoft Office workplace. It appears that Clippy was not deprecated but in fact promoted to management, where it (he?) directs stupid annoying distractions and complications and confusions from on high.
Someone needs to straighten it (him?) out. That's not just a pun.
We're still in a place where when computers try to be "helpful" (using #AI, predictive #algorithms, recommendation algorithms etc.) are too close to #Clippy territory instead of being genuinely helpful.
So I'd rather have them not try to do that. I know what I'm doing and would prefer to not having to constantly undo the "help".
First time since maybe early 2022 that I used Adobe Illustrator today. I accomplished adjusting a graphical navigation, while constantly deactivating and closing pop-up windows and menus all over the screen suggesting adding generated this and applying artificial that. #Clippy on steroids, what a mess!
You know, even ignoring the ethics of #AI for a moment... I truly don't understand the consumer-facing hype.
After, what, a decade of #Siri and Google Assistant and, and even now with #OpenAI and #ChatGPT, at best, you get some trivia answers, maybe an image, and #Clippy writing an email for you.
How is this interesting? How is this "The Next Big Thing"?
@ioletsgo#Clippy at least did actually provide features and worked well - for like 1997 tech that's still great compared to the shitshow of #ChatGPT ....
At least Clippy didn't hallucinate a solution but admitted to not know or understand one's question...
My collection of several generations of Microsoft Ugly Christmas Sweaters. 😁
✅ MS DOS
✅ Windows 3.1
✅ Windows XP
✅ Microsoft logo
✅ Windows Classic
✅ Age of Empires
✅ Xbox Season Unlocked
✅ Clippy
✅ Halo Master Chief
@imperio Any chance you can add a clippy lint warning when using the underscore in numeric literals with an odd format?
I just spent ten minutes hunting a bug before realising I'd written 0_32 instead of 0_u32.
Ideally clippy could spot that there are fewer than three digits after the underscore and warn that it looks suspicious. (I'm assuming people only use underscores to break big numbers into thousands, but it's possible I'm missing something.)