I'd rather wish people put effort into LibreOffice.
I'd hoped there would be significant improvements there as there is a huge scope of bug/compatibility fixes. But I guess it is not sexy enough.
Yeah, this entire saga is really unfortunate. The narrative is really enticing (AI is obsoleting Adobe/Microsoft/other corporate software behemoths!) when the reality is it's a vibe-coded slopware that barely functions, according to anyone who has actually tried it, and there are other FOSS alternatives which are much more stable, mature, and deserve people's attention. I wonder how many people shouting "Claude vibed a Photoshop clone, Adobe is done!!" were even aware Krita or GIMP existed.
im willing to bet its easier to generate a new office than it is to fix libreoffice
It is not sexy enough.<p>It has atrocious UX. Crazy bloat from promising to support every one-off file format under the sun for the last 25 years.<p>Trying to get a PR commit committed is like dealing with an entire army of bureaucrats.<p>So I get it would be great (in theory) if people wanted to support this, but at the same time it’s too far behind —- and the team is too entrenched in bad UX decisions, ackward support mandates for obscure systems that in reality nobody ever really used.
The media response to this omits the fact that these vibe coded "reverse engineered" apps hardly work and we've had open source alternatives to the Microsoft and Adobe products for years. The narrative they're pushing is a frontier model can make a perfect clone of any app, and the reality is it makes a ui that looks somewhat similar but none of the functionality actually works.
Yep, I realized this back in February, you can remake basically anything in a drastically shorter span of time with a single frontier model and patience and test thoroughly.
All I see in this article is bunch of ads and something about people arguing on Twitter. Is there a link to the actual project or announcement?
Internet decentralized the data.
Now, AI has decentralized software.
Next, we need decentralized AI.
Can these tools withstand Microsoft’s lawyers?
I’d be thoroughly impressed if all the weird quirks of Excel also make the cut.