Open almost any note app's changelog right now and you'll find the same entry: an AI summarize button, an AI chat sidebar, an AI-generated outline. It's become the default way to look like you're still shipping.

I'm not against AI. I'm against adding a feature because everyone else is adding it, not because it solves something Aviquill's users actually asked for.

The question I keep asking

Every feature in Aviquill exists because it solves a real navigation or organization problem — the ruler, the minimap, floating editors, all of it traces back to "I got lost in my own notes and needed a way out." An AI button doesn't pass that test by default. It passes it if, and only if, it actually removes friction from moving through or making sense of a canvas. Otherwise it's just a checkbox for a marketing page.

"Can technology X make our product seem more modern" is the wrong question. "Does this solve the specific problem Aviquill exists to solve" is the right one. Most AI features I see bolted onto note apps fail that second question — they're generic chat windows dropped onto a canvas, doing nothing a canvas-shaped problem actually needs.

The cost nobody mentions in the changelog

Every AI feature adds a dependency, a cost per request, a new way for things to quietly fail, and a new thing users have to learn and trust. None of that is free, and none of it is worth paying unless what's on the other side is clearly better than not having it.

Bolting one on just to match a competitor's landing page screenshot means absorbing all of that cost for a feature that exists to be screenshotted, not used.

What would actually change my mind

If there's a real navigation problem on a large canvas that pattern-matching or language understanding solves better than a ruler, a minimap, or a search index — I'd build it. Not because it's trendy, but because it would pass the same bar every other feature in Aviquill had to pass.

Until then, I'd rather ship one more thing that actually fixes how you find your own notes than a button that makes the changelog look busier.