<p>"[...] 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."</p><p><a href="https://www.xda-developers.com/microsofts-huge-venture-flatlines/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.xda-developers.com/microsofts-huge-venture-flatlines/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.xda-developers.com/microso</span><span class="invisible">fts-huge-venture-flatlines/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/microsoft/" rel="tag">#microsoft</a> <a href="/tags/copilot/" rel="tag">#copilot</a></p>
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<p>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.<br></p>Peter Naur in Programming As Theory Building, 1985.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/copilot/" rel="tag">#Copilot</a> <a href="/tags/agenticcoding/" rel="tag">#AgenticCoding</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/softwaredevelopment/" rel="tag">#SoftwareDevelopment</a> <a href="/tags/softwareengineering/" rel="tag">#SoftwareEngineering</a> <a href="/tags/programming/" rel="tag">#programming</a> <a href="/tags/coding/" rel="tag">#coding</a><br>
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<p>Please, don't use any <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> service to generate some report you don't plan to check really carefully yourself in every detail.</p><p>I've read one with clearly hallucinated stuff all over it.</p><p>It doesn't push your productivity, it really destroys your credibility.</p><p>This technology is no productivity miracle, it's an answer simulator.</p><p><a href="/tags/pim/" rel="tag">#PIM</a> <a href="/tags/microsoft/" rel="tag">#Microsoft</a> <a href="/tags/copilot/" rel="tag">#CoPilot</a> <a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#ChatGPT</a></p>
<p>Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft</p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/02/copilot-exposes-private-github-pages-some-removed-by-microsoft/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/02/copilot-exposes-private-github-pages-some-removed-by-microsoft/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/information-te</span><span class="invisible">chnology/2025/02/copilot-exposes-private-github-pages-some-removed-by-microsoft/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/microsoft/" rel="tag">#microsoft</a> <a href="/tags/copilot/" rel="tag">#copilot</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#privacy</a> <a href="/tags/surveillance/" rel="tag">#surveillance</a> <a href="/tags/enshittification/" rel="tag">#enshittification</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/github/" rel="tag">#github</a> <a href="/tags/softwaredevelopment/" rel="tag">#softwaredevelopment</a></p>
New uBlock Origin rule to clobber the intrusive "Copilot" button that recently appeared in Outlook web mail:<br><br>! Jul 25, 2025 <a href="https://outlook.office.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>outlook.office.com</a><br>outlook.office.com##<a href="/tags/copilotcommandcenterbutton/" rel="tag">#CopilotCommandCenterButton</a><br><br>Note: there should be three (3) pound signs between ".com" and "CopilotCommandCenterButton". For some reason my fediverse server does not display all three.<br><br><a href="/tags/ublock/" rel="tag">#uBlock</a> <a href="/tags/aispam/" rel="tag">#AISpam</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/copilot/" rel="tag">#Copilot</a> <a href="/tags/microsoft/" rel="tag">#Microsoft</a> <a href="/tags/outlook/" rel="tag">#Outlook</a> <a href="/tags/darkpattern/" rel="tag">#DarkPattern</a><br><br>This post is not an invitation to criticize me for using a Microsoft product or to suggest an alternative.<br>
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<p>When Microsoft takes away your Office and replaces it with Copilot, watcha gonna do?</p><p>Me, I vibe coded a better Office home page: offi.ceo 🚀</p><p>Details on my newsletter: <a href="https://www.perspectives.plus/p/i-created-a-better-office-com" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.perspectives.plus/p/i-created-a-better-office-com"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.perspectives.plus/p/i-crea</span><span class="invisible">ted-a-better-office-com</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/microsoft/" rel="tag">#Microsoft</a> <a href="/tags/microsoft365/" rel="tag">#Microsoft365</a> <a href="/tags/copilot/" rel="tag">#Copilot</a></p>
<p>"Yet, it turns out no one is buying Copilot."<br><a href="/tags/microsoft/" rel="tag">#Microsoft</a> <a href="/tags/copilot/" rel="tag">#Copilot</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/ki/" rel="tag">#KI</a> <a href="/tags/bubble/" rel="tag">#Bubble</a> </p><p>"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.<br>The same is true for Microsoft’s cash baby, ChatGPT."</p><p>No shit, sherlock?<br><a href="https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/the-ai-industry-is-starting-to-unravel" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/the-ai-industry-is-starting-to-unravel"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/</span><span class="invisible">the-ai-industry-is-starting-to-unravel</span></a><br>(Danke, Mathias!) <br>Oh, I forgot: <a href="/tags/windows/" rel="tag">#windows</a> <a href="/tags/windows11/" rel="tag">#windows11</a></p>
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<p>Most developers now use coding assistants. I do too—<a href="/tags/copilot/" rel="tag">#Copilot</a> at work, <a href="/tags/claudecode/" rel="tag">#ClaudeCode</a> at home. As a developer, I prefer not to repeat myself. This post explains why and how to avoid repetition with skills.</p><p><a href="/tags/dry/" rel="tag">#DRY</a></p><p><a href="https://blog.frankel.ch/writing-agent-skill/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.frankel.ch/writing-agent-skill/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.frankel.ch/writing-agent-</span><span class="invisible">skill/</span></a></p>
<p>4 月 24 日，除非你选择放弃，否则我们将开始使用 GitHub Copilot 的交互数据进行 AI 模型训练。 请查看此更新 ，并在 GitHub 账户设置中管理您的偏好设置。</p><p>此更新：<a href="https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/updates-to-github-copilot-interaction-data-usage-policy" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="github.blog/news-insights/company-news/updates-to-github-copilot-interaction-data-usage-policy"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.blog/news-insights/comp</span><span class="invisible">any-news/updates-to-github-copilot-interaction-data-usage-policy</span></a><br>偏好设置：<a href="https://github.com/settings/copilot/features" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="github.com/settings/copilot/features"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/settings/copilot/fe</span><span class="invisible">atures</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/github/" rel="tag">#GitHub</a> <a href="/tags/copilot/" rel="tag">#Copilot</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>
<p>Are you not entertained?</p><p><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/for-individuals/termsofuse" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/for-individuals/termsofuse"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros</span><span class="invisible">oft-copilot/for-individuals/termsofuse</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/microsoft/" rel="tag">#microsoft</a> <a href="/tags/copilot/" rel="tag">#copilot</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/enshittification/" rel="tag">#enshittification</a></p>
