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[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 18 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 28 minutes ago) (3 children)

scales back?

I just got an update that puts a persistent copilot overlay in the corner of Excel, blocking my cells. and the same update seems to have added a context menu that shows up on left click on a squiggle word in Word, which again blocks my document unnecessarily. I use neither of these features. I want neither of these features. I want to use the fucking program to do my goddamn work

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

That little floating copilot icon in excel is the devil's work. I'm not a violent person but whoever came up with that should be flogged (IDK what flogging is but it sounds appropriate lol).

[–] bridgeburner@lemmy.world 2 points 39 minutes ago

Flogging is a form of punishment where you get whipped.

[–] RxBrad@infosec.pub 3 points 3 hours ago

"Guys, we're scaling back on AI! Honest! Isn't this great publicity?!"

"Also, totally unrelated... but today we're launching SchmoPilot Assistant for Notepad!"

[–] KillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachts 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

You don't know what you want, you ungrateful shit.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 points 28 minutes ago

true, I always forget that