Article - The copilots that Microsoft has created are undeniably impressive, and I believe that they represent the sort of technological change that only comes along once in a generation.
Many have expressed concern about Copilot putting people out of work or causing other economic harm. While such fears may ultimately prove to be warranted, I believe that there is another potential problem associated with using Copilot that nobody is talking about yet. This is the problem of overreliance.
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Practical Issues Around the Implementation of Microsoft 365 Copilot
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Butter is just vigorously shaken cow juice
Just gotta give it a good wank, er, churn.
I like pointing out compilers exist, and there is a chapter in “The Pragmatic Programmer” about creating scripts to auto generate code.
Your calculator is much less likely to suddenly decide that 2+2=5 though.
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When will these people understand that QA will always be involved?
“AI can make mistakes!”
Yeah no shit, that’s why you CHECK IT.
I absolutely love using copilot as my initial search method. It’s not a guru, and you can’t take it on its word. It’s a fancy search engine and thats it to me. If you want good information you still have to do leg work to qualify it as such.
copilot is just horrendously bad. it actually makes me less productive. Microsoft’s innate ability to completly fuck up AI is honestly remarkable.
Any alternatives you might recommend?
I find perplexity is pretty good
