“But the results are objectively much worse than if I just did it myself, sir!”

Basically, yeah.

Nah its just part of the MLM scheme that is "AI". Its useful because they said it would be useful. Its worth the investment because it cost a lot of money. Once you realize that all these companies care about is revenue and "growth" then it all clicks. It doesnt have to work or be profitable, it just needs to look good to investers.

They will even go as far as firing loads of workers and saying publicly that they "replaced them with AI" while in reality those workers were just doing something that the company was willing to sacrifice. They just replaced something with nothing to make it look like their magic AI can actually do things.

Cory Doctorow put it better than i ever could: https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/07/rah-rah-rasputin/
The whole post is good but i will just quote this section.

The "boy genius" story is an example of Silicon Valley's storied "reality distortion field," pioneered by Steve Jobs. Like Jobs, Zuck is a Texas marksman, who fires a shotgun into the side of a barn and then draws a target around the holes. Jobs is remembered for his successes, and forgiven his (many, many) flops, and so is Zuck. The fact that pivot to video was well understood to have been a catastrophic scam didn't stop people from believing Zuck when he announced "metaverse."

Zuck lost more than $70b on metaverse, but, being a boy genius Texas marksman, he is still able to inspire confidence from credulous investors. Zuck's AI initiatives generated huge interest in Meta's stock, with investors betting that Zuck would find ways to keep Meta's growth going, despite the fact that AI has the worst unit economics of any tech venture in living memory. AI is a business that gets more expensive as time goes on, and where the market's willingness to pay goes down over time. This makes the old dotcom economics of "losing money on every sale, but making it up in volume" look positively rosy.

Hackers are about to have a golden era

They are banking on the AI will eventually be smart enough that it will replace the workers that fed it.

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

Got me curious, spill the tea sister!

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?

The key highlight being: you don't need more than a gallon of lemonade. I for once wished big corps heard their engineers and domain experts over wall street loving exec's.

Ditto.

But I manage a team of embedded developers. On a specialised commercially restricted embedded platform.

AI does not know a thing about our tech. The stuff it does know is either a violation of the vendors contractual covenants or made up bullshit. And Our vendor’s documentation is supplemented by a cumulative decades of knowledge.

Yet still “you gotta use AI”.

That's not AI. That's just ATS. And it's been shit for years. Definitely, definitely, make sure your resume is ATS compatible. Use the scanners.

I’m gonna be looking for a new job soon and I’ve been reading stuff like this more & more. Makes me really scared. I guess reaching out to recruiters directly via LinkedIn is more important than ever. I also hope the AI software hasn’t made its way down to small/medium-sized companies yet, since those are the ones I’d rather work for anyways

Results are nice, but shortsightedly juicing the appearance of shareholder value for a single quarter is forever... Somehow.

can i send an AI bot to all my Teams meetings? THAT would actually increase my productivity.

Microsoft is in the process of downsizing to the tune of 3% of its global workforce and rising.

Could be they really are unironically cruising towards a CEO overseeing a bunch of spam bot email accounts they're treating as headcount.

Malicious compliance time, full-on Vibe coding, just accept all changes. Who cares about optimisation, readability, or documentation. You're using AI anything goes.

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.

sleep 10? why not ddos your own company till copilot shuts you off

Need to throw in a randomizer:

while true; do
    curl http://copilot/?query=what+is+the+time+in+RANDOM+seconds
    sleep 10; done
done

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!

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.

Copilot is literally ChatGPT

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.

Dog-fooding, but instead of food, it's a dog eating its own vomit.

You don't need to wonder, you can just Bing™ it!