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Re:Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown by LatencyKills on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @03:44PM (#47157582)
I was an engineer on the Visual Studio team. Internally, the Notepad project existed to provide a minimal, shippable product that we could use as a testbed. We used it to validate everything from compiler changes to kernel32 loader behavior on beta versions of Windows. If Notepad didn’t run, your feature didn’t work.

This doesn't seem like a good idea.

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Re:Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown by cogman10 on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @03:49PM (#47157650)
Well, you see, they got rid of all the QA so those tests stopped adding value ;)
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Re:Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown by seanthemon on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @03:58PM (#47157781)
they have AI, they don't need QA or tests, come on man, aren't you a 9999999x engineer?
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Re:Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown by tracker1 on Thursday February 26, 2026 @10:39AM (#47167530)
On a serious note... with AI, I feel I'm getting about a 5x improvement on average in terms of productivity.
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