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Why in the hell does Notepad need AI? I can't roll my eyes any harder than I am at this idea. Jesus.

Edit: I challenge those who downvote this to steelman the inclusion of AI in what is ostensibly supposed to be a very barebones, simplistic, no frills notepad.

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I'd say it's similar to spellcheck. We don't spell very well anymore, and soon we won't get any better at writing.

Word taught me how to spell back in the 90s.

Oh yeah? +1UP with WordPerfect for DOS 5.1 in text mode with reveal codes, graphics mode print preview, and arbitrary font sizes using raster 600 dpi laser printing that took 2 minutes to send over ECP. That's the only way I could cram 12 pages of text and equations onto a 3x5" card allowed for AP Physics final... I had way better eyesight then.

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