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Enshittification of Google Docs

neural_thing
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Google Docs

product degradation

enshittification

The post discusses the perceived decline in quality of Google Docs, a phenomenon referred to as 'enshittification', with no comments provided to offer additional insights or debate.

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legitster
2h ago
Clickbait title, but I wholeheartedly agree.

Much of the AI rollout has been a hot mess of bad UI choices - executives duct taping buttons in random places. Or worse, inconsistent behaviors between chatbots. One button brings up Gemini, and it will answer questions about anything... just not the document you have open. One button brings up Gemini, but it will only answer questions about your document.

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