[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.

[ysleepy]

I don't know, could you imagine people doing human creative things could be annoyed being confronted by AI everywhere, the thing that is stealing from and destroying artists livelihood?

Yeah, maybe it is a gut reaction on my part.

Read your comment again and tell me that you fully believe in this feature and decided on it because it was important to your carefully crafted experience and human interaction design and not some compromise because everybody is doing it.

The marketing narrative is also jumbled, sorta derisive about artificial text, but telling people to make it their own. Is this the message you want to send? "Our text editor is for people passing off AI slop as their own by slightly rewriting it"?

Your choice of framing and center-staging this feature in the 7 release makes this distasteful.