Hacker News Reader

Comment by infecto | Hacker News Reader

The MacOS copilot implementation is horrid. Takes up a significant amount of screen space just to offer a summary of the email. Cannot turn off. For whatever reason cannot be a simple button with pop up on click. It’s horrid.

View on HN

> Takes up a significant amount of screen space just to offer a summary of the email. Cannot turn off. For whatever reason cannot be a simple button with pop up on click.

Because someone had 'Achieve Copilot feature adoption and utilization > 80%' on their VP level OKRs?

Would not put it pass them but truly the macOS office suite is in such disarray that I suspect it’s more mundane that they don’t have any real PMs. Surprising because you would think it would be worth at least some effort.

To this day Excel still does not have ribbon shortcuts so for any excel pros, it’s garbage. I have to run excel in a windows emulated environment.

I can't think of an email I have ever received that needed to be summarized?

Who is writing these super long emails?

sometimes, super long email threads in corps

Could definitely use this with some of the PG mailing list threads.

I could definitely see value in condensing the threads. Would be nice to see a single message.

I've written some super long emails; but I also include a TL;DR summary at the top when I do. Sometimes, the "how to get to the summary from the current, commonly known info" (long) part is useful; but not for everyone. And certainly not right out of the gate.

That being said, I'd almost never trust an AI to generate the summary part.

Have you never seen how AI makes texts super long? That needs to be summarized again by the receiver!

Like a reverse compression.

> Who is writing these super long emails?

Other LLMs.

Maybe in the future send an email with just a few simple words and phrases that then gets expanded by LLMs on the receiver end. A weird future awaits.

I hope it does not involve typing on a keyboard. Typing on a keyboard is so millennial, and holds back innovation, such as everybody solely using touchscreens in closed walled gardens. I hope the future is an llm that has access to all the context of our lives and then presents 4-5 such different keywords, and you just tap on the ones you want to use for the email. Once the llm is sufficiently trained, the last step can even be skipped and lead to the most seamless and obstruction-free email user experience possible.

Typing is a powerful mental exercise, with each keystroke contributing to improved memory, language development, cognitive adaptability, and concentration – all of which essentially breeds innovation.

The future you described is a wild kind of dystopia.

Mental exercise sounds exhausting and pointless. Think of all the possibilities that getting rid of such unnecessary distractions would open to the users, such as more time for scrolling down in social media and watching ads.

Obviously (dark) joking.

the point is obviously for the AI thing to read your emails -- they are not asking you

The apple one to summarize texts is even odder. It is a medium almost entirely defined by extreme brevity.

People who need to convey complex ideas?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com