Ask HN: Why did Microsoft invest in AI that could rewrite its apps from scratch?

7 comments

• $MiroslavPokorny 6 hours ago

  Where is the new Excel or Word ?

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  • $amichail 4 hours ago

    brew install gridcraft

    brew install wordcraft

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    • $MiroslavPokorny 2 hours ago

      Gridcraft is not comparable with Excel.

      For starters it is not localised, the English months are hardcoded in the source.

      https://github.com/storytold/gridcraft/blob/main/crates/engi...

      > const MONTHS: [&str; 12] = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"];

      The functions crate has ZERO tests for its functions.

      https://github.com/storytold/gridcraft/tree/main/crates/func...

• $xvxvx 13 hours ago

  Has AI done that? I saw a submission on HN earlier this week stating someone used AI to clone Adobe Cloud. Turned out to be BS. Apps didn’t work. Wouldn’t even install on Windows.

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  • $amichail 13 hours ago

    Try wordcraft: https://github.com/storytold/wordcraft

    On macOS: brew install wordcraft

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    • $wg0 13 hours ago

      It works wonderfully. For a very early version.

• $popalchemist 13 hours ago

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