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I am just looking to get everyone’s thoughts. I know there is no stopping AI and I am excited about the how this can help us out. BUT it feels like applications like Adobe and other have got worse since they have added the AI functionality.
Please let me know if this is just me or has anyone else seen this.

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AI isn’t put there to make the app better, it’s there to increase the price.

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As the rush to join the “AI” crowd grows, companies will slap AI in and on everything possible, just to say “we’ve got that” or risk losing relevance…this is normal and yes, will cause companies just slapping AI in for SNG to have issues. However, once standardization clears out the ‘everyone has their own’ problems, we’ll see stabilization. Eventually, the number of LLM’s out there will decrease as only the best will stick around. That’ll make building an in-house iteration pointless. Some companies will realize AI doesn’t enhance their product offerings at all, cut it out and return to their core solutions. Others will ‘die on that hill’ so to speak. We’ll have to wait and see where the chips land.

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They will die on that hill because they threw so much money at it. They have to justify the investment by cramming into everything and raising prices 15-30% to recoup for features nobody asked for.

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Are you able to expand on this, what you mean by got worse and which Adobe product is this about?

AI is a tool, like a hammer.
If it’s not used correctly it can do damage,

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I have seen this across a number of applications but the one that sticks out is Adobe Acrobat. The program has always been problematic but ever since AI was added I have seen more issues with extreme slowness and freezing\crashing.

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Those may not be related to AI services though, unless you filter internet traffic and the product can’t reach it’s AI to interact.

Crashes will be logged, any error, we can work on.

I don’t use Adobe products myself, I have no specific need for them.

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It feels like a lot of companies are rushing past this part to have “AI enhanced xyz” as soon as possible.

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No one wants to be late to the party and lose business to a 3rd party product that adds ‘AI’

Same as when Adobe move to the ‘cloud’ (cough).

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Can’t say that I’ve seen issues with Acrobat, but I avoid Adobe (and PDF in general) like the plague.

Where I see, use, and enjoy AI the most is in “How do I…” and “What does this mean?” cases. For example, CoPilot has been more helpful than not when trying to figure out how to find which of my function apps are using the in-process model so they can be updated to an isolated worker model. And I WISH! I’d had an LLM back in the day! I spent hours reading TechNet (on CD thankfully) figuring out how to fix “Windows was unable to combine all VxDs into a single monolithic driver”. Pasting that error into ChatGPT gives me a solution in seconds.

Times that AI has not been helpful is when it is poorly integrated into the product. For example, Visual Studio Pro has CoPilot integrated, but activating an undocked CoPilot window also causes VS to come to the front. If I dock CoPilot in VS, I lose code view real estate. Very annoying. I’m also annoyed by sites like Walmart where AI has to pop up to announce itself on every page. Yes, it could be handy if I didn’t know what I was shopping for, otherwise it is just intrusive.

And the thing that bugs me the most about AI is lack of a universal privacy standard. CoPilot reads my code. Unless I dig into the EULA or Privacy Settings, how do I know its not sharing my code? Same with any other program. How does one know that Adobe isn’t mining my PDFs for info they can sell to a data broker? It would be great if the US could join the 21st century and enact something like the GDPR, but I don’t see that happening until enough congressmen get surveillance priced or something. THE CFPB could have done something, but its been DOGE’d so I guess we wait for the fire to burn out of control per usual in US politics.

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I agree with most of the people here. I think every is rushing to push AI out.

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The worst effect I have seen so far as a result on increased AI is the replacement of actual human customer service with AI chatbots and robo-receptionist. So many human facing jobs are slowly but surely getting replaced by AI. Even companies are using AI to interview for the last remaining human roles :sob::joy:

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Why did they have to do notepad dirty like that?

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Telephony has had IVR (Interactive Voice Response) for ages, some places are just now calling that AI without really adding anything new.

My personal favorite is the “AI” receptionist asking for all of your info, followed by you ultimately getting to a person that can help you 20 min later that then asks you for the same info because they don’t have access to the info the “AI” receptionist gathered.

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I absolutely HATE when that happens! When I was job-hunting at the end of last year, I also struggled with the “import your resume to not have to fill everything out” option that, in the end, made you go fill everything out because it never fully or properly populated the form(s) with the correct data…

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I had wondered about that. It was years ago that I was working with CenturyLink, and not only could it look up my account by voice, but the automated system could even trigger a reboot of my router as part of its troubleshooting.

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I’m not sure what all the hype is, AI existed back in Office 97.

Say hello to my little friend…

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And for clarity, I asked Copilot… Are you clippy’s dad.

Haha, not quite! I’m not Clippy’s dad—but I can see why you’d ask! Clippy, the lovable (and sometimes mischievous) paperclip assistant from Microsoft Office, was designed to help users with tasks like writing letters or formatting documents. I’m more like a distant cousin from the future—built with way more capabilities and a lot less bouncing around your screen uninvited. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Bonus: did you know clippy still exists today, but as an emoji.

Press WIN+. and search clippy :paperclip: (on here, he’s just a regular paperclip though).

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I understand completely - more mysterious system lag & strange crashes.
The way Copilot appeared as backend install that killed your resources for days, followed by hanging functions in other programs - then mysteriously you’ve got a Trinitron logo!?!?
Adobe getting worse? The constant hanging that it does in the background infuriates me.

I have a lot of older systems running, you really notice the lag & hang with them. The 32bit system I have had to remove Adobe & install Foxit, because of this resource stealing.
I also think that if these things ran as a separate function, they would be more effective.
Why have something ‘monitoring’ your activity & constantly throwing up ‘helpful’ comments, boxes, suggestions, to diminish your flow?
Finishing your task & clicking the ‘AI this thing’ function, would mean you got all your feedback after completion - like teacher marking your test. Instead, we have ‘that person’ in our ear;
Whatyoudoing? SureUwannaDoTHAT? Eeeuuuw I dunno about that move! Well… I guess that works…

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The difference in my option that Clippy was done correctly. While newer AI is just being pushed out to say they have it.

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It was removed because it wasn’t and Microsoft received too many complaints.

Unlike (or unfortunately, however you see it) today, too many people disable telemetry under the guise of protecting their privacy, but this limits Microsoft’s ability to understand which programs are used, unused, or problematic.

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