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Those 80% sometimes DO get something out of it - when the resident nerd can fix their broken document because it’s Markdown or WordPerfect.

Just because I can’t fix my car doesn’t mean I want an unfixable car.



Agreed, but that’s the tension.

There’s no free lunch. On the flip, that user wants the complex features of the platform, and exposing them to a markup language takes elegant markdown and turns it into html or ooxml.


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It reads nothing like ChatGPT, the "on the flip" is a dead giveaway that it isn't. Strange comment.


lol. I’m not sure if that’s an insult or a compliment. I use message boards to blow off steam, and have never used any LLM to write anything. Genius or idiot, purely organic writing. :)




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