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This looks awful. I've come to realize that any feature with "smart" anywhere in the name, is something I want disabled.

Smart quotes? Only exist to fuck up copypasta code and SQL statements.

Smart spell check? There's a field of internet hilarity about how bad this is.

Smart restore? Best way to lose my data and fuck up my install.

Smart assistant? I've yet to meet even one person who uses GAssistant/Siri/Cortana for anything more complex than "schedule a meeting" or "set an alarm."

Smart handwriting recognition? Refuses to detect the word "fuck". And my handwriting was perfectly legible anyway.

I want my software to be TOOLS. Predictable, ideally interoperable and chainable, but above all: simple. The best pieces of Ux make technology feel like a simple tool. Cut/paste. Messaging conversation-style, with a simple "send" button. Grep.

I find my best note taking software is a text editor, with all formatting turned off. I use ad blockers to disable as many recommendation engines as I can. I use duckduckgo because it just answers my query, without trying to tailor the answers to what the machine (or the advertiser) thinks I want. To mee, simple tools that behave consistently are infinitely preferable to the game of "guess how the computer is misunderstanding the request." Maybe I'm a curmudgeon.

I work with ML/AI, and there are great benefits in lots of applications. Just not in second guessing what people want to do. Even other PEOPLE are terrible at that.

Please don't make me dance around the quirks of your "smart" AI. I promise, I am smarter. I have better context. I know what I want to do. Just get out of the fucking way and let me do it in the simplest, most direct way.




> Smart handwriting recognition? Refuses to detect the word "fuck". And my handwriting was perfectly legible anyway.

Related to this, I recently found the option that controls whether the system from recommends or corrects to offensive words. It's buried under:

Settings > System > Languages & input > Virtual Keyboard > Gboard (more than likely for most) > Text correction > Block offensive words.

The same option exists for Google voice input. Wonder if there's something similar for your issue.


> Smart assistant? I've yet to meet even one person who uses GAssistant/Siri/Cortana for anything more complex than "schedule a meeting" or "set an alarm."

Children. No really watch them use an iPhone.


I used to use Google Now on almost a daily basis. Unfortunately I haven't figured out how to get the same functionality out of Google Assistant




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