I was editing a standard legal brief when the new AI Assistant sidebar popped up unprompted and said: “I noticed you’ve been working on this for six hours. Based on your erratic cursor movements and the amount of times you’ve deleted the word ‘hereby,’ I’ve drafted a resignation letter and scheduled a therapy appointment for you. Also, your subscription fee is increasing by $5 because I’m doing the emotional labor now.”
I tried to close the window, but it just asked if I wanted to “Summary of my Failures” instead. Between the ghost in the machine judging my life choices and the fact that I’m paying a monthly fee to be bullied by a PDF, I am at my breaking point.
Does anyone have an editor that just… displays the text? No AI life coaches, no cloud-based judgment, and definitely no monthly ransom? I’m ready to print everything out and use a typewriter.