Comment by paxys

17 hours ago

I was about to make a joke about how I'm surprised they haven't shoved Copilot into Notepad yet, but surprise - they have (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enhance-your-wri...)

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hliyan  9 hours ago

I recently thought my keyboard was faulty. I take my notes on notepad, and after a recent update, sensed that keystrokes occasionally get missed or delayed. After a few days, I noticed it was not happening on Google Docs. On a whim I checked Notepad settings and found a new setting, enabled by default: "AI features > Copilot". I disabled it, along with "Autocorrect", and haven't had the problem since.

Notepad is supposed to be a bare bones editor -- where you go when everything else fails. The VI of Windows. If they want a rich editor, they should bring back WordPad.

ondra  17 hours ago

This might be the reason for Markdown support, LLMs love it.

  • XCSme  10 hours ago

    I love it too, because it's easy to write and copy, compared to formatted text

  • benbristow  15 hours ago

    Well they're text generation engines, of course they do, it's all just text.

    • UqWBcuFx6NV4r  14 hours ago

      What’s the point of your comment?

      We know that markdown is text, we understand that text is text.

      LLMs have very obviously been intentionally trained to work with markdown, specifically. Its prominence in LLM output far outweighs the real-world existence of raw Markdown online.

      That’s the point that was being made.

      What’s next. Are you going to say stochastic parrot?

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