I had a boss who didn’t use even the context menu never mind keyboard shortcuts. He went for the application Edit menu to copy/paste. Gave me headaches.
Watching people open the browser (whoch open to google by default), typing google on the search field and hit search, selecting the first result (which of course is google) and the making their search when it open
But are enough of the AI generation people going to understand the difference?
I feel like, due to the reduction of quality expectations, they will just end up feeling the same about this as we do about the previous one, despite the difference being visible as night and day for us.
You could watch them post the text into a notepad doc that they keep open, which has all the stuff they copied and pasted before, then copy the WRONG TEXT back into the target document.
Sometimes it’s faster. If I’m already using the mouse to change windows, I’ll use the context menu. If my hands are on the keyboard, I use keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Ctrl or ⌘ + C or V). It just depends on what you’re doing.
If you have them side by side, and you have many of them tiled, I guess you could Alt-Tab through them, but I find it easier to click.
If I’m clicking between three windows and I have four open, do you really think it’s quicker to Alt-Tab? On the Mac I just hit F3 which is Mission Control which I wish Windows had (it’s basically a more elegant Alt-Tab; we have ⌘+Tab but that’s only icons, same thing but not as pretty).
Forgive my ignorance as a non-Mac user, but isn’t the screen that shows up when pressing WIN+Tab similar? It shows all your open windows and their content, plus (iirc) let’s you switch to/create additional desktops.
My project manager refuses to use hotkeys, watching her copy/paste with the right click context menu takes years off my life.
I had a boss who didn’t use even the context menu never mind keyboard shortcuts. He went for the application Edit menu to copy/paste. Gave me headaches.
Watching people open the browser (whoch open to google by default), typing google on the search field and hit search, selecting the first result (which of course is google) and the making their search when it open
I have to leave this thread.
Years ago saw someone copy/pasting stuff in Excel one field at a time using the “Edit” menu. She told me this way she knew it was working.
I had to walk away.
I will also say that back then computers were a lot scarier, since many people had never used them. People were terrified of clicking the wrong thing.
To be fair, I always Ctrl+C multiple once to make sure it copied, even though one would be enough. Humans are pretty irrational
That’s not irrational on some OSes coughWindowscough. There was a time where the hotkey copy would randomly not work with no rhyme or reason.
Yeah, I am the same.
I type the code myself, so I know what it actually means, instead of letting AI do it.
It might seem different now, but 10-20 years down the line, they might be the same energy.
I mean maybe. But one is a deterministic way to do the exact same thing, the other is a nondeterministic way to maybe do a similar thing.
Yeah, that’s right.
But are enough of the AI generation people going to understand the difference?
I feel like, due to the reduction of quality expectations, they will just end up feeling the same about this as we do about the previous one, despite the difference being visible as night and day for us.
It can get worse.
You could watch them post the text into a notepad doc that they keep open, which has all the stuff they copied and pasted before, then copy the WRONG TEXT back into the target document.
Sometimes it’s faster. If I’m already using the mouse to change windows, I’ll use the context menu. If my hands are on the keyboard, I use keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Ctrl or ⌘ + C or V). It just depends on what you’re doing.
Where else would your other hand be but the keyboard?
Petting the cat (genuine reason to use the context menu)
People use the mouse to switch windows?
I have alt+tab bound to a mouse button.
If you have them side by side, and you have many of them tiled, I guess you could Alt-Tab through them, but I find it easier to click.
If I’m clicking between three windows and I have four open, do you really think it’s quicker to Alt-Tab? On the Mac I just hit F3 which is Mission Control which I wish Windows had (it’s basically a more elegant Alt-Tab; we have ⌘+Tab but that’s only icons, same thing but not as pretty).
Forgive my ignorance as a non-Mac user, but isn’t the screen that shows up when pressing WIN+Tab similar? It shows all your open windows and their content, plus (iirc) let’s you switch to/create additional desktops.
Kind of… it’s actually my go-to on Windows 11, which I have to use at work.
Windows actually only recently supported multiple desktops, which Mac and Linux have had for a while.
FWIW, this used to work better when “cascade windows” was a standard thing.