Comment by secondcoming
1 day ago
That makes little sense, notepad.exe already exists. The only development required on it would be to add AI shit to it. They could just leave it alone.
1 day ago
That makes little sense, notepad.exe already exists. The only development required on it would be to add AI shit to it. They could just leave it alone.
That means you have to work on the original code, and modern entry-mid level devs can't do that. It's probably in C++. Your expensive senior and staff level devs are on more important projects.
Make it a web app and your cheap entry level grads can do it.
Notepad was basically the "Hello world" of win32 apps. A kid in highschool could have "maintained" it.
My first entry-level job just freshly coming out of the University was writing C++ with Qt for a computer vision app. And that was my actual first contact with C++ (had seen C and Java in Uni).
It was no biggie, just joining the low level of C with the class notions from Java. Pair that with the C++FAQ website, and it was easy.
Are entry-level devs generally not able to do that nowadays? I do not believe people are generally more stupid or less capable, so, is education so much worse or what's going on?
Shouldn’t the AI technology that Microsoft is spending billions on make this trivial?
Microsoft has the resources to train people.
But does any junior want to learn C++ Win32? You want to learn something that leads to a long-term career development path, not a sunsetting technology.
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But there's no need to change it, that's the point. It's a finished product pretty much. Just ship it as is.
If a PM needs NotepadAI for their career progression then start it from scratch.
> That means you have to work on the original code, and modern entry-mid level devs can't do that. It's probably in C++.
As far as I remember, Notepad was the reference implementation for a Microsoft widget. Nothing more. If "modern entry-mid level devs can't do that" you really have a much bigger problem.
I don’t think you understand. Notepad was literally one of the examples that comes with the SDK. It doesn’t need any maintenance. As long as windows has a native SDK, notepad exists because it is basically the simplest GUI application, provided as a sample.