What's the point of saving $25 bucks or whatever a Word license is to use a vibe coded application?

It's not even $25, it more like $10 / seat.

Because Wordcraft is faster and more stable than Word. Word rarely crashes, but it does freeze. Wordcraft is freezing about 1/2 as often as Word. For the daily grinding out docs, it's way more viable than Openoffice.

But mostly, because having a workflow entirely dependent on a single vendor seems like something to avoid if possible.

The last formatting bug I encountered was last week. Claude identified, patched, and pushed in 10 minutes.

It doesn't do VBA. However, porting VBA to WC macros is trivial for llms.

	▲	hectormalot 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I looked at the Wordcraft repo. It has 1.5k issues and 1.2k PRs, I think all LLM coded, and many from non-contributors, with a first release just 1 month ago. Isn't this a minefield for someone to put in something that exfiltrates data, loads malware, or something else? The project and outcome looks impressive, but I wouldn't dare to run this outside a sandbox right now.

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alansaber a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

25 bucks is 25 bucks. I also feel that losing your license because you tried to save 25 bucks on MS Word seems unlikely (not legal advice).

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lostlogin a day ago | parent [-]

Is the cost of Word anywhere on anyone’s hate list?

	▲	alansaber a day ago \| parent [-]
		Massive amounts of people hate the SAAS model and frequent end of support for older perpetual versions.

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thatsallchildsp a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Why become hostage to a multibillion conglomerate for "editing text"? It's asinine what people are using Word for. If engineering types need special syntax handling I get it, but lawyers.. accountants.. my god man, plain text is fine with some semi-fancy markup a la markdown renderers these days. Some tables, some red lines, some fonts.. It's trivial. It was not in the 80s but it is now.