The only area in which is it acceptable to reason this way is graphical user interfaces. (And only if you've provided an API already for reliable automation, so that nobody has to automate the application through its GUI.). Is say graphical, because, no, not in command interfaces.
Even in the area of GUIs, new heuristics about intent cause annoyances to the users. But only annoyances and nothing more.
Like for example when you update your operating system, and now the window manager thinks that whenever you move a window so that its title bar happens to touch the top of the screen, you must be indicating the intent to maximize it.
I suppose the ship has sailed now that people are deploying LLMs in this way and that and those things intuit intent. They are like Postel's Law on amphetamines. There is a big cost to it, like warming the planet, and the systems become fragile for their lack of specification.
> When Outlook strips out a certificate from an email for alleged security reasons
I would say it's being liberal in what it accepts, if it's an alternative to rejecting the e-mail for security reasons.
It has taken a datum with a security problem and "fixed" it, so that it now looks like a datum without that security problem.
(I can't find references online to this exact issue that you're referring to, so I don't have the facts. Are you talking about incoming or outgoing? Is it a situation like an expired or otherwise invalid certificate not being used when sending an outgoing mail? That would be "conservative in what you send/do".)
Ouch, no. Dragons be there. Famous last words.
The only area in which is it acceptable to reason this way is graphical user interfaces. (And only if you've provided an API already for reliable automation, so that nobody has to automate the application through its GUI.). Is say graphical, because, no, not in command interfaces.
Even in the area of GUIs, new heuristics about intent cause annoyances to the users. But only annoyances and nothing more.
Like for example when you update your operating system, and now the window manager thinks that whenever you move a window so that its title bar happens to touch the top of the screen, you must be indicating the intent to maximize it.
I suppose the ship has sailed now that people are deploying LLMs in this way and that and those things intuit intent. They are like Postel's Law on amphetamines. There is a big cost to it, like warming the planet, and the systems become fragile for their lack of specification.
> When Outlook strips out a certificate from an email for alleged security reasons
I would say it's being liberal in what it accepts, if it's an alternative to rejecting the e-mail for security reasons.
It has taken a datum with a security problem and "fixed" it, so that it now looks like a datum without that security problem.
(I can't find references online to this exact issue that you're referring to, so I don't have the facts. Are you talking about incoming or outgoing? Is it a situation like an expired or otherwise invalid certificate not being used when sending an outgoing mail? That would be "conservative in what you send/do".)