▲ | kkfx 2 days ago | |||||||
Commercial software and ignorance make users less productive... I do not spend such time in finding my files thanks to Emacs/org-mode/org-attach to master them, I do not waste time with Office suite to prepare documents, I use LaTeX and org-mode and that's hyper faster once learned. Essentially FLOSS tools must be learned in time, typically at school, than you can profit for life, commercial software is an endless low-learning process full of frustration to do anything. No LLM can solve that, it's a chosen design for business purpose. | ||||||||
▲ | uludag 2 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||
> Commercial software and ignorance make users less productive... This is exactly what I have observed too. Notice how all commercial software comes very polished and modern with a very superficial UI. Despite most software products being hundreds of times more complex than simple electronic gadgets, such gadgets often come with more complex manuals. It's obvious that the true end-game of AI is not to make end users more productive, but rather de-skill end-users and make them entirely beholden to third-party software. Most companies would love the tradeoff of making their employees more like cogs at the cost of lower productivity. Alas, I too am held hostage by Emacs as most software doesn't even come close to the flexibility it provides. | ||||||||
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