I would really love it if #Microsoft devoted fewer resources to frivolous deployments of #AI technology and more to overhauling the Word codebase so that it doesn't bring a modern M-series Mac to its knees just by opening a quarter-meg text document with track changes turned on. Every breathless article about Microsoft and Google and chatbots should open and close by observing that generative AI could never do as much damage to writers as decades of garbage functionality in Word and Google Docs.