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brokenmachinelast Monday at 4:52 AM4 repliesview on HN

Surely if Copilot was so useful and great, it wouldn't be free and they wouldn't be trying to force it down unwilling people's throats at every opportunity.

I'm beginning to think this AI stuff isn't all it's cracked up to be...


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wseqyrkulast Monday at 8:05 AM

> useful

That's not even the endgoal they are aiming at. Suppose you have a data churning loop you want to run forever. First step is to send a copy everywhere (anywhere) and in whatever shape and form to feast. Otherwise it just sits there looking at the nuclear plant next door.

codeboltlast Monday at 10:02 AM

I've been a heavy user of the MS Copilot chat app on my Android phone, which I've been pretty happy with as a free basic AI chat option except for some annoying GUI bugs that they will apparently never get around to fixing. But I've yet to see a good use outside of the chat interface.

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nitwit005last Monday at 10:15 PM

I'm not confident they have any sensible vision beyond "meet the KPI for Copilot usage".

thatgerhardlast Monday at 6:38 PM

its so that they can tell the investors that "100 million" people use their bs