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    9 days ago

    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Fuck you Microsoft and other Big Tech assholes AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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    9 days ago

    …and yet it’s still all over the place and not going away. I thought the “market” was supposed to decide whether these things stay around or die on the vine.

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      Microsoft did the dodgy auto opt-in/up-lift on renewals for non corporate M365 subscriptions to add copilot unless you explicitly went into your account and chose to stay on the non copilot version of M365.

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      There’s adoption, but not to the expected level. Basically, a lot of people use it at least sporadically, but few wants to pay. And meanwhile companies need to buy billions on data centers.

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    But… they made it a button on the keyboard? Microsoft sucks. They literally made an advertisement on the keyboard and their product still can’t take off. Install Linux.

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      8 days ago

      That button isn’t for m365 copilot, but windows copilot which is an entirely different thing and yes that confusion hasn’t helped Microsoft here. Also see GitHub copilot.

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        Good thing they are all first-party software so they all integrate nicely together. Get an email that M365 Copilot read and creates a task that GitHub Copilot can implement! Right?

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          Mate, I’ve had outlook begging me to use copilot and the second I do it just tells me it can’t read my inbox or my calendar. What is even the fucking point.

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            Damn if that isn’t the most “Microsoft” interaction I’ve ever seen

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        I have become convinced that Microsoft is a company with no actual direction going off of pure momentum from early wins. It’s actually crazy how bad this shit is.

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    Shocking.

    It’s almost like the utility of language learning models isn’t in being shoehorned into fuckjng everything.

    Go figure.

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    it’s worse than that, I am in the 1.8% against my will because my boss thinks Copilot is helpful and got us licenses against everyone’s objections

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        It’s very capable. Of course you go and check them after the meeting but I find them much more comprehensive than general human notes

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    9 days ago

    Wow, that is abysmal.

    But Microsoft has staying power and deep pockets. This is only the beginning for them.

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    8 days ago

    I’m sure they made lots of money selling your personal information to the highest bidding data broker.

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    Every time I’ve been desperate enough to use AI (ChatGPT, Gemini) for a semi-difficult question, it has failed me miserably.

    It’s hallucinated libraries.

    It’s hallucinated commands.

    I tried to have it write me a complex formula to evaluate a date value. I noticed one of the conditions I needed to be covered was not, and brought up a date that would evaluate incorrectly. It basically “explained” step by step that the formula worked for my example date but used a different year for the one step where the flaw was. Like it gaslighting me.

    Just last week I searched Google about a product owned by Google, Gemini interjected and gave me a detailed list of the product’s features, including the feature I was searching for so it caught my eye. The reference link was to a forum post where someone asked if it had that feature and then someone responded that it did not have that feature.

    It’s just… not reliable.