No AI please for the love of the spaghetti monster. I'm so sick of having this shit shoveled into anything I'm trying to do these days. Disabling Siri all these years was bad enough.
So far Apple has kept it as a toggle in the settings, but it's easy bloat for it to keep spreading. Does anyone need AI in a text editor? No.
While I appreciate the sentiment, I think the single best use case for LLMs today is drafting text, so a text editor sounds like home for an AI assistant.
Where I fall on this is. "What is the tool for?" I still default to nano in the terminal for basic editing. Him and eMacs are entire ecosystems when all I need is a chisel.
In the general sense, notepad and TextEdit should just be less nerdy nano's. They always have been and that's what they were meant for.
If you need something to write reports, a book, etc then you use MS Docs, Google Docs, or whatever Apple provides. Those are the tools where adding AI might be useful as a feature, like the ribbon in Office.
So far Apple has kept it as a toggle in the settings, but it's easy bloat for it to keep spreading. Does anyone need AI in a text editor? No.