Re:Google is freaking out about ChatGPT
by WalterBright on Sunday January 22, 2023 @07:58PM
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Excel is the #1 programming language by a wide margin, and it evolved rather than was designed.
I remember when all reports were crystal reports which you don't see as much anymore? Excel is on the way out.
Re:Google is freaking out about ChatGPT
by AlbertCory on Monday January 23, 2023 @12:19AM
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Exactly. Every release some PM or senior engineers wants to add some features, for no doubt good reasons, and it all gets shoehorned into the UI. Thus the rule I generally espouse, of
"Simple things should be simple. Complicated things should be possible."
turns into
"Everything is possible, but nothing is simple."
My summary view of much of Microsoft, and more of tech, is that, while a lot of the software is really good, too often the corresponging explanations and documentation are not.
There seems to be a theme that the user should learn to use the software via experimentation. To me, that too often results in too much clicking, and when finally I do see I take notes, i.e., document some of the software.
"Someone, somewhere, might want to do this, so let's put it in" is obviously what's happened with Office for 30 years now.