[reichenstein]

What slop engine integration? There is no slop engine integration. We do the very opposite. We separate between human and machine generated text, we are so careful about making sure that people know what they wrote and what they didn't that even make sure that you see when you spellchecked something with the help of Apple Intelligence. There's nothing to fuck or get angry about AFAIK, and I'm responsible for it.

[ysleepy]

You chose to pander to the slop flinging AI dullards so you can announce AI AI AI in 7.0.

Maybe we can enjoy the benefits of Electron in 8.0. At least then I can change the cursor color from the ugly cold blue. - You had to force your corpo branding on me while I'm writing didn't you.

[reichenstein]

I don't think your anger has anything to do with us. Your aggression sounds about as random as your rhetorical reference to Electron when we've been at the native app front for 15 years, or "why did I give them money?" when you were able to pay once and use our app without paying a subscription forever.

With AI also did the very opposite of what everybody else is doing. While everyone was integration ChatGPT calling it their AI we asked ourselves what would happen when everyone does that. We said: No to more money. We said no to AI integration. Instead, we drew a line that at that time literally no one drew.

That in contrast to iA Writer, in 2026, actual generative AI is everywhere, in every OS and every app... this is not a matter of pandering or whatever you may call it. It's a reality that we have to deal with. iA Writer is not an island, as a markdown app,, it is part of a process. Markdown goes from app to app as it should.

I think we did as good a job as we could, drawing a pragmatic line when no one did. Our goal is to make people think more, not less.