Copilot is by far the worst llm type software i have ever used.
Even there big selling feature of being integrated into office apps is a joke.
Claude code does a vastly better job at knowing what a .txt file is, can generate and editing office files from the commandline. Claude put zero effort into making Microsoft software compatible, it just is as a natural consequence of being less incompetent.
One of my co-workers is pro co-pilot for some fucking reason. He actually paid for his own subscription to use on his work machine. 'Cause he’s… I don’t know. He’s not an idiot, but he does idiotic things.
That aside, he used the co-pilot app in Outlook to search for an email, and co-pilot in Outlook tells him it cannot search inside of fucking Outlook for your emails.
He looked at me, and he asked me, “What am I supposed to do with this?”
My response was, “the only reason it’s there is for you to tell it to draft you an email that someone else will then receive, and put into co-pilot to then re-condense back into the original one sentence blurb that you crafted the email with.”
He’s paying $20 a month out of his own pocket that he’s at work working for in order to have software shoved into his software that does not do what you need it to do and cannot do what you need it to do.
I think the computing space would be a better place if every person that worked with Microsoft either quit or, like, I don’t know, volunteered for lobotomy.
I got a new job and they gave me an outlook account. I asked copilot to look at an email and add the event details to my calendar. It couldn’t do it. 5 or 6 times I asked and it was unable. It wanted to create an ICS for me to download and import. Fuckin useless. Turned it off.
I turned off copilot in the outlook settings and the UI refuses to remove the icon. The icon flashes in full color, next to other things I use, before then going grey/disabled, but its impossible to remove it. So it shoves it in your face every day even after you already learned how much it sucks. Fucking worthless software and UI design going on at Microsoft.
It’s not incompetence, they’d wish it was. It’s actually offering something like 30 different subscription plans, each offering a different slice of the possibilities. You’d actually have to pay a small fortune each month to have access to the full copilot stuff.
Source: was involved in a pilot project for work to test the use cases last year.
Copilot is by far the worst llm type software i have ever used.
Even there big selling feature of being integrated into office apps is a joke.
Claude code does a vastly better job at knowing what a .txt file is, can generate and editing office files from the commandline. Claude put zero effort into making Microsoft software compatible, it just is as a natural consequence of being less incompetent.
One of my co-workers is pro co-pilot for some fucking reason. He actually paid for his own subscription to use on his work machine. 'Cause he’s… I don’t know. He’s not an idiot, but he does idiotic things.
That aside, he used the co-pilot app in Outlook to search for an email, and co-pilot in Outlook tells him it cannot search inside of fucking Outlook for your emails.
He looked at me, and he asked me, “What am I supposed to do with this?”
My response was, “the only reason it’s there is for you to tell it to draft you an email that someone else will then receive, and put into co-pilot to then re-condense back into the original one sentence blurb that you crafted the email with.”
He’s paying $20 a month out of his own pocket that he’s at work working for in order to have software shoved into his software that does not do what you need it to do and cannot do what you need it to do.
I think the computing space would be a better place if every person that worked with Microsoft either quit or, like, I don’t know, volunteered for lobotomy.
I got a new job and they gave me an outlook account. I asked copilot to look at an email and add the event details to my calendar. It couldn’t do it. 5 or 6 times I asked and it was unable. It wanted to create an ICS for me to download and import. Fuckin useless. Turned it off.
I turned off copilot in the outlook settings and the UI refuses to remove the icon. The icon flashes in full color, next to other things I use, before then going grey/disabled, but its impossible to remove it. So it shoves it in your face every day even after you already learned how much it sucks. Fucking worthless software and UI design going on at Microsoft.
It’s not incompetence, they’d wish it was. It’s actually offering something like 30 different subscription plans, each offering a different slice of the possibilities. You’d actually have to pay a small fortune each month to have access to the full copilot stuff.
Source: was involved in a pilot project for work to test the use cases last year.