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Microsoft launches āvibe workingā in Excel and Word
A new Office Agent in Copilot chat, powered by Anthropic models, is also launching today that can create PowerPoint presentations and Word documents from a āvibe workingā chatbot.
Iām quite sure a part of my last job loss was due to my open refusal to use AI, which extended to my criticism of the use of AI-generated code being added to a codebase I was expected to manage and maintain. Being careful is seen as friction now, careful is translated as slow, no matter how much time is spent fixing things broken by shitty generated code, fixing is seen as productivity more than careful production is.
My new video about the anti-design of the tech industry where I talk about this little passage from an ACM article that set me off when I found it a few years back.
In short, before software started eating all the stuff ādesignā meant something. It described a process of finding the best way to satisfy a purpose. It was a response to the purpose.
The tech industry takes computation as being an immutable means and finds purposes it may satisfy. The purpose is a response to the tech.
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vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ollyMSWSWOY pod: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse/8ffce464/tech-as-anti-design
threads bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/fasterandworse.com/post/3ltwles4hkk2t masto: https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/114852024025529148
ābusinesses and employeesā
the business pays for it, the employees āuseā it.
the business measures the value by how many employees they can remove.
if the business is measuring āproductivityā, how are they doing that? Is it jira tickets? Is it timesheets? are they measuring quality? Is it starting to seem like youāre trying to pick up water with your fingers?
if you pretend that ai ceos are actually doing marketing the trajectory is right there staring you in the face
new rant from me about how boosters asking critics to admit that AI is āusefulā is not the win they think it is vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcBCji6XvE audio: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse/94cb1cda/useful-is-nothing
hereās my beat for beat commentary on the WWDC25 event icyi. https://bsky.app/profile/fasterandworse.com/post/3lr6tm62rpc2h
David pulled it all together perfectly here. Itās amazing how well it fits the hook model, whether they intended it or not
fyi they updated their blog post with this catch-all disclaimer in the last couple of hours
āit is simply too big to categorically endorse or not endorseā
āso weāre gonna play it safe and endorse itā
well this fucken sucks. I was rooting for the dude and his projects.
Theranox