May 23, 2026 · 4 hr 21 min · 16 segments
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These notes are brought to you by, um, one of our writers who wrote two whole lines about this.
This is on top of one of the topics from TechLink, which I hosted today, where they are removing their little Copilot button that was in, um, Office 360 apps and was just getting in people's way.
Is it starting to feel like Microsoft is getting the message that users do not wanna have this stuff crammed down their throats, and that customizability and having the machine do what I want it to do when I do something, uh, is more important than whatever agenda it is that they're trying to advance?
Yeah, I think it's like the, the way the, the question was worded was, like, are the cracks showing that AI might not be what the people want? And I don't think that's true.
But forcing people to use it and forcing people to use it in a particular way both seem like something that is highly unpopular.
If you, if you let people have more agency in how they use it, if you could bind that key to be an AI button, and especially if you could bind it to be an AI button in a way that you might want it to work, then that could be an interesting combination.
If I could bind that to launch, I don't know, Claude or something instead of whatever they want it to do, that would feel better.
the most powerful of the platforms, out of all the computers that I carry with me every day, the one that doesn't have a quick, easy access single button for me to just yap at it and then have whatever I'm saying appear in text without sort of jumping through hoops or configuring something specially to do that is, is, it, it's crazy.
It's crazy how easy it is here and here and how much of a hassle it is to set up here.
But no, just, like, a system-wide voice-to-text would be extraordinarily convenient.
These notes are brought to you by, um, one of our writers who wrote two whole lines about this.
This is on top of one of the topics from TechLink, which I hosted today, where they are removing their little Copilot button that was in, um, Office 360 apps and was just getting in people's way.
Is it starting to feel like Microsoft is getting the message that users do not wanna have this stuff crammed down their throats, and that customizability and having the machine do what I want it to do when I do something, uh, is more important than whatever agenda it is that they're trying to advance?
Yeah, I think it's like the, the way the, the question was worded was, like, are the cracks showing that AI might not be what the people want? And I don't think that's true.
But forcing people to use it and forcing people to use it in a particular way both seem like something that is highly unpopular.
If you, if you let people have more agency in how they use it, if you could bind that key to be an AI button, and especially if you could bind it to be an AI button in a way that you might want it to work, then that could be an interesting combination.
If I could bind that to launch, I don't know, Claude or something instead of whatever they want it to do, that would feel better.
the most powerful of the platforms, out of all the computers that I carry with me every day, the one that doesn't have a quick, easy access single button for me to just yap at it and then have whatever I'm saying appear in text without sort of jumping through hoops or configuring something specially to do that is, is, it, it's crazy.
It's crazy how easy it is here and here and how much of a hassle it is to set up here.
But no, just, like, a system-wide voice-to-text would be extraordinarily convenient.
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