points by piker 15 hours ago | 0 comments
What's the point of saving $25 bucks or whatever a Word license is to use a vibe coded application?
[–] tiahura 14 hours ago
[–] alansaber 14 hours ago
25 bucks is 25 bucks. I also feel that losing your license because you tried to save 25 bucks on MS Word seems unlikely (not legal advice).
[–] lostlogin 12 hours ago
Is the cost of Word anywhere on anyone’s hate list?
[–] alansaber 12 hours ago
Massive amounts of people hate the SAAS model and frequent end of support for older perpetual versions.
[–] thatsallchildsp 14 hours ago
Why become hostage to a multibillion conglomerate for "editing text"? It's asinine what people are using Word for. If engineering types need special syntax handling I get it, but lawyers.. accountants.. my god man, plain text is fine with some semi-fancy markup a la markdown renderers these days. Some tables, some red lines, some fonts.. It's trivial. It was not in the 80s but it is now.
Because Wordcraft is faster and more stable than Word. Word rarely crashes, but it does freeze. Wordcraft is freezing about 1/2 as often as Word. For the daily grinding out docs, it's way more viable than Openoffice.
But mostly, because having a workflow entirely dependent on a single vendor seems like something to avoid if possible.
The last formatting bug I encountered was last week. Claude identified, patched, and pushed in 10 minutes.
It doesn't do VBA. However, porting VBA to WC macros is trivial for llms.