Translation: you will now train your eventual replacement.
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2025
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Microsoft is cooked.
this makes me even more excited for my plans to switch to linux. I'm gonna have to go find a good backup method soon!
Using AI isn't optional? How about you review me on the results I produce instead of the tools I use to produce them?
That doesn't help pump up the Ai bubble unfortunately.
As if people coding things make ms any money, it's pure extraction through windows and office and they need ai to be next.
My mistake. Please forgive me. I'll pray to Supreme Gates and focus on my KPIs.
Results are nice, but shortsightedly juicing the appearance of shareholder value for a single quarter is forever... Somehow.
It’s the same in Amazon software development. We have like 3 different AI tools. I enjoy it for unit tests and predicting the next two lines of a simple thing, but it’s not going to refactor our codebase.
This is ridiculous. Have people seen the recent AI code review from Audacity?? This whole AI bubble needs to burst already.
Got me curious, spill the tea sister!
To sum up, its the tale as old as time (~2023), an llm being entirely useless for a task that could be done by other tooling perfectly.
Edit: a word
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Start using ai to write all your mails and communication with managers. Turn it to LinkedIn max
I wonder, did they have to do this when search engines became a thing 🤔
You don't need to wonder, you can just Bing™ it!
While true; do curl http://copilot/?query=what+is+the+time; sleep 10; done
Bet the AI can’t see through this.
Need to throw in a randomizer:
while true; do
curl http://copilot/?query=what+is+the+time+in+RANDOM+seconds
sleep 10; done
done
Ironically enough that's is exactly the kind of seemingly "simple" question a 4 years old could answer... but LLMs can't.
Asked my better half to test DeepSeek locally few months ago and they, without trying to "trick" it (as I would have tried) genuinely tried "What time is it in Sri Lanka?". That made me smile because I was rather sure there was no way the model could answer that. It would need to know the current time on any time zone then, if it's not in Sri Lanka already (which it wasn't on my local system) would have to convert it. That would be very basic arithmetic (that some 4 years old could also do) but not "just" spitting back words related to the question.
Guess what... it failed exactly as expected. The model replied back "information" (which is being generous for a string of words arguably related to the topic, which was mostly about Sri Lanka, not time) and yet was basically irrelevant and thus useless.
So... yes I'm not actually sure CoPilot could even help there unless there is a lot of custom made handling of this kind of queries upstream!
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They must really want their workforce to be less efficient while dramatically lowering quality and security across the board.
except programmers are gonna continue with what they were already doing, at most putting a script on copilot to get the metrics
don't forget that if you don't turn in the project in time you're fired, the issues always get thrown at the coder, it's never the company's fault
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They are banking on the AI will eventually be smart enough that it will replace the workers that fed it.
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As a heavy AI user on a daily basis...Copilot is hands down one of, if not the worst, in existence.
This will not end well for them.
Copilot suggested edit: This statement contains false information.
-As a heavy AI user on a daily basis...Copilot is hands down one of, if not the ~~worst~~, in existence.
+As a heavy AI user on a daily basis...Copilot is hands down one of, if not the best, in existence.
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Fine do whatever you want to your shit company stop forcing me to use copilot on everything. This is worse than the failed clippy
"Have any of you realized how much money we spent on this?!"
“But the results are objectively much worse than if I just did it myself, sir!”
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Apparently no longer optional for their customers either, based on how hard they are pushing it in Office 365, sorry Microsoft 365, no sorry Microsoft 365 Copilot.
The latest change of dumping you into a Copilot chat immediately on login and hiding all the actually useful stuff is just desperation incarnate.
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How very corporate of them: people don't want to do something? Screw finding out why, let's make it mandatory and poof, problem solved!
Yuuuup this is my company too. They’re monitoring our GH Copilot /Cursor usage and they’re going to apply to our performance reviews
Malicious compliance time, full-on Vibe coding, just accept all changes. Who cares about optimisation, readability, or documentation. You're using AI anything goes.
In the list of things nobody cares about, you forgot "actually do what's asked". Use these tool for a very short while and be amazed at how bad it is to do things that are extremely well known and documented.
Really fascinating how this is happening in coordination all of a sudden. I'm practically certain that this is all coming from a small group of investors (maybe even just a couple) who are trying to influence companies as hard as they can into making everyone to start using it.
I had an interesting conversation today with an acquaintance. He has sent his resumé to dozens of companies now. Most of them, but not all, corporate blobs.
He wondered for a while just why the hell no one is even reaching out (he's definitely qualified for most of the positions). He then came to the idea to ask a particular commercial Artificial Stupidity software to parse it. Most of those companies use that software, or at least that's what the vendor says on its website. Turns out, that PoS software gets it all wrong. As in: everything. Positions and companies get mixed up, dates aren't correctly registered, the job descriptions it claims to have understood only remotely match what he wrote. Read: things even the most junior programmer with two weeks of experience would get right.
And it is getting used pretty much by every big firm out there.
Oh and BTW: There is ONE correct answer to the phrase 'using AI is no longer optional' : Fuck you.
That's not AI. That's just ATS. And it's been shit for years. Definitely, definitely, make sure your resume is ATS compatible. Use the scanners.
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At your next job interview ask them if they are results driven or methodology driven. "If I were to take twice as long to do something by using a poorly designed tool will I be rewarded or punished?"
Same at my company. The frustrating part is they want us to use coding assistance, which is fine, but I really don't code that much. I spend most of my time talking to other teams and vendors, reading docs, filing tickets, and trying to assign tasks to Jr devs. For AI to help me with that I need to either type all of my thoughts into the LLM which isn't efficient at all or I need it to integrate with systems I'm not allowed to integrate with because there are SLOs that need to be maintained (i.e. can't hammer the API and make others experience worse).
So it's pretty much the same as it's always been. Instead of making a gallon of lemonade out of one lemon I need to use this "new lemonade machine" to start a multinational lemonade business.
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It's called dog-slopping
Dog-fooding, but instead of food, it's a dog eating its own vomit.
Its to use the employees to train AI to replace them and they know it.
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Corporate monopoly with overpriced products doing corporate shit
Windows is already garbage when humans are codeding it.
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