"[...] there are approximately 1.5 billion Windows users worldwide, which means just over 1% of them are using Copilot, a tool that's now a Windows default app."
https://www.xda-developers.com/microsofts-huge-venture-flatlines/
copilot
Programming properly should be regarded as an activity by which the programmers form or achieve a certain kind of insight, a theory, of the matters at hand. This suggestion is in contrast to what appears to be a more common notion, that programming should be regarded as a production of a program and certain other texts.
A computer program is not source code. It is the combination of source code, related documents, and the mental understanding developed by the people who work with the code and documents regularly. In other words a computer program is a relational structure that necessarily includes human beings.
The output of a generative AI model alone cannot be a computer program in this sense no matter how closely that output resembles the source code part of some future possible computer program. That the output could be developed into a computer program over time, given the appropriate resources to do so, does not make it equivalent to a computer program.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #Copilot #AgenticCoding #dev #tech #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #programming #coding
Edited 272d ago
Please, don't use any #LLM service to generate some report you don't plan to check really carefully yourself in every detail.
I've read one with clearly hallucinated stuff all over it.
It doesn't push your productivity, it really destroys your credibility.
This technology is no productivity miracle, it's an answer simulator.
Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft
Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is exposing the contents of more than 20,000 private GitHub repositories from companies including Google, Intel, Huawei, PayPal, IBM, Tencent and, ironically, Microsoft.
#microsoft #copilot #ai #privacy #surveillance #enshittification #tech #github #softwaredevelopment
New uBlock Origin rule to clobber the intrusive "Copilot" button that recently appeared in Outlook web mail:
! Jul 25, 2025 https://outlook.office.com
outlook.office.com###CopilotCommandCenterButton
Note: there should be three (3) pound signs between ".com" and "CopilotCommandCenterButton". For some reason my fediverse server does not display all three.
#uBlock #AISpam #AI #GenerativeAI #Copilot #Microsoft #Outlook #DarkPattern
This post is not an invitation to criticize me for using a Microsoft product or to suggest an alternative.
! Jul 25, 2025 https://outlook.office.com
outlook.office.com###CopilotCommandCenterButton
Note: there should be three (3) pound signs between ".com" and "CopilotCommandCenterButton". For some reason my fediverse server does not display all three.
#uBlock #AISpam #AI #GenerativeAI #Copilot #Microsoft #Outlook #DarkPattern
This post is not an invitation to criticize me for using a Microsoft product or to suggest an alternative.
Edited 207d ago
When Microsoft takes away your Office and replaces it with Copilot, watcha gonna do?
Me, I vibe coded a better Office home page: offi.ceo 🚀
Details on my newsletter: https://www.perspectives.plus/p/i-created-a-better-office-com
"Yet, it turns out no one is buying Copilot."
#Microsoft #Copilot #AI #KI #Bubble
"But why is Copilot’s growth and/or sales so bad? Well, one study tested these ‘agentic’ AIs, including Copilot, and found that they flat out failed to complete even simple tasks 70% of the time, rendering them somewhere between useless and an active hindrance.
The same is true for Microsoft’s cash baby, ChatGPT."
No shit, sherlock?
https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/the-ai-industry-is-starting-to-unravel
(Danke, Mathias!)
Oh, I forgot: #windows #windows11
Edited 39d ago