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AI Document Editors Lack Diff Views to Review Suggested Changes

People using AI to help format and rewrite documents currently can't see a clear diff of what changed, unlike code-editing tools that show line-by-line proposed edits before they're applied. Existing AI writing assistants tend to rewrite content wholesale, making it hard to selectively accept or reject specific changes within a document editor.

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