On Thu, 10/22/2026 10:50 PM, MegaNZ wrote:
Vibe Chap has released another app called WordCraft. Apparently, it has
been designed to rival Microsoft Word in terms of features and ease of use.
https://getartcraft.com/apps/wordcraft
A portable version is also available (both 32-bit and 64-bit) via these links:
<https://github.com/storytold/wordcraft/releases/download/v0.8.0/wordcraft-0.8.0-windows-x64-portable.zip>
<https://github.com/storytold/wordcraft/releases/download/v0.8.0/wordcraft-0.8.0-windows-x86-portable.zip>
The AI seems to be making lots of damage to big tech corporations and nothing is stopping it.
I tried that some days ago, and there was no Ribbon.
I was expecting to see something that looked "threatening", but
concluded from a very cursory examination that there was
nothing there at the moment. It looked like a competitor for Notepad.
That will change with time... or until the designer runs out of tokens :-)
Note that, when you select one of their portable installs
instead of one of the other types, the contents of the package
may differ. That's what I saw with pdfcraft, which I looked at.
To get OCR working in pdfcraft required downloading two files
for OCRS, OCRS being the existing OCR code for the purpose
(something newer than Tesseract).
I wasn't really "looking for a replacement", I just wanted a
quick check of "how much of a threat is this" and the answer
is that this is just a marketing campaign.
Some care is being taken, to avoid a trip to court on any notion
of "Software Patents", which is likely to impede the ability
to "make exact copies of anything". That's why I call this
a marketing campaign, rather than the ideas or concepts the
author of it makes.
I myself make programs with LLM-AI, little hobby programs. From not-the-best LLM-AI.
What I've seen so far, is not putting anyone out of a job. If a person knows how
to construct a harness, and they have access to a million dollars worth of tokens,
I think they could make a good stab at it. Any kind of "feedback system", with closed loop control and a multitude of LLM-Ai instances, that makes up for the "missing dimension" that a single LLM-AI possesses.
As far as doing an "in-your-face" campaign, this is like taunting
the vehicle full of Disney lawyers. There is bound to be the smell
of expensive cologne outside your domicile, if you attempt to make
exact copies of an application. Even if the lawyers don't have good
cases for court, just the number of cases raised will drain
your supply of your own defense lawyer funds. And that is not
happening in this case. I think it's just a bunch of buttons
and an Electron engine, for the interface. Notice that, if you
move your mouse over the face of these applications, you might
see all the CPU cores go to 100%. And that's not a good look for
software, whatever the hell it is doing when that happens. I'm going
to pretend that is not a bitcoin miner :-)
By all means, look at it. See what all the fuss is about. This does not
mean some city in Germany is going to be using nothing but these for
city use.
Since the LLM-AI does make mistakes, in some companies the bottleneck
to production is the "code review" stage of getting the LLM-AI to do things. There can be mistakes of omission, in any dimension you attempt to test.
Like, imagine if the Edit menu had Copy but no Paste. As a reviewer, you
have to know the thing you're duplicating well enough, to notice that
Paste is an important function and needs to be added. There can be a
zillion things that could go missing, and if you're lucky... maybe
one of your new customers will file a bug report and close the loop.
Paul
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