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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.
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.
Results are nice, but shortsightedly juicing the appearance of shareholder value for a single quarter is forever... Somehow.
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 🤔
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
Did AI tell you to use "tail" there?
No, that was good old fashioned human stupidity, fixing.
While true; do curl http://copilot/?query=what+is+the+time; sleep 10; done
Bet the AI can’t see through this.
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!
Need to throw in a randomizer:
while true; do
curl http://copilot/?query=what+is+the+time+in+RANDOM+seconds
sleep 10; done
done
sleep 10? why not ddos your own company till copilot shuts you off
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.
If I ask copilot to help write a power automate script or similar, I guarantee it will not work. It won't make sense. And if I do it from within power automate, it wants to replace what I already have there. It's a mess.
If I pull up chatgot on my phone (because it's blacklisted at work) I will get very clear, step by step instructions that are usually good enough or occasionally not correct but close enough that I can tweak it back on course.
Have found this too.
We were only allowed to use Copilot at my last job, ChatGPT + the others were all blacklisted.
We received SO many tickets from users across the organisation (including IT) requesting access to ChatGPT.
Copilot is literally ChatGPT
System prompt and other tooling make some difference.
Yeah and ChatGPT sucks compared to many.
Fine do whatever you want to your shit company stop forcing me to use copilot on everything. This is worse than the failed clippy
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
Company I'm at also does the forced AI and it's all but mandatory now. Problem is as code monkeys we're past the point of heading down to the Winchester for a pint until it blows over. They're pushing so hard in order to "not fall behind" that you literally can't escape it. I think even malicious compliance won't cut it. And when 8/10 companies that dictate the market say that "this is the future", then this is the future they'll make whether we like it or not.
Edit: the silver lining is that we're working with tools that are better than copilot at generating menial work like generating boilerplate code, unit tests, release notes, walls of text for app documentation etc.
release notes and app documentation:
memes aside, are they blaming the coders or the ai on the slower project turnout?
We're in the honeymoon phase, shit didn't hit the fan yet. Problem is we devs are fucked either way. If productivity does increase, then workforce demand will go down especially for entry level devs and seniors will be relegated to vibe coding and fixing AI bugs. If it all goes south then layoffs, because line must go up!
They are banking on the AI will eventually be smart enough that it will replace the workers that fed it.
They should have just invested in NFTs instead.
Yuuuup this is my company too. They’re monitoring our GH Copilot /Cursor usage and they’re going to apply to our performance reviews
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.
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.
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!
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.
The process to log in to the online portal of Outlook is so bad it's crossed into comical territory. So much friction, only to shunt you to a full screen ~~clippy~~ copilot page.
I'd be curious to know what the usage statistics are for that page. Like, what could a person possibly accomplish there?
Windows is already garbage when humans are codeding it.
It's called dog-slopping
Dog-fooding, but instead of food, it's a dog eating its own vomit.
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?"
The only hope for Microsoft is if Xbox takes over all of Microsoft and transforms the whole company
Corporate monopoly with overpriced products doing corporate shit
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