Rick Strahl

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I am in Microsoft Word. I press Copilot. I ask for a table. The AI can't modify the Word document so it creates a new document in the cloud. It then allows me access the document through a link. Presumably I am supposed to go there, copy the table and put it in my Word document myself. Who designed this ? This is so obviously a low-effort implementation that I am baffled. It is almost as if they wanted to fail. Why can't Microsoft see that having direct access to Microsoft Word is an incredible edge that they could leverage to embed the AI directly? It is almost comical.

Here is my prediction: The Magnificent Seven - Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla - will continue to push AI down our throats despite diminishing returns to its users, simply because they’ve invested so much they’ve gone past a point of no return. That notwithstanding, the inevitable Great Implosion will happen to companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI because open source models that can be run locally - with minimal capex and zero risk of surveillance - are quickly and irreversibly becoming good enough. The whole ”AGI is just around the corner” is a meaningless and silly distraction.

Microsoft is moving to 100% native apps for Windows 11. They are stepping away from web-based wrappers. A new team at Microsoft will rebuild apps using native tools like WinUI. Engineer Rudy Huyn is involved in this shift. Apps like File Explorer should launch quicker. The Start menu and context menus will feel more responsive.

AI generates your code in under a minute. You spend a few hours debugging it. You could’ve just written it yourself in about an hour. But that would mean actually thinking… and apparently we don’t do that anymore