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After Copilot Trial, Government Staff Rated Microsoft's AI Less Useful Than Expected (it.slashdot.org)
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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have copilot at work and honestly it’s not worth the price.

The number of times it has created grossly inaccurate meeting notes or summary items basically means I can’t trust it to be shared with someone who wasn’t there, so it’s mostly just there as a roll the dice memory jogger for participants.

The components embedded in office apps like PowerPoint are absolutely useless, and that’s where I really wanted it to help.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've found it to have extremely limited value, but not zero. It's been useful as a shortcut for things I can already do myself. For instance, I can easily get syntax for a param block, or build a window form. Could I do it myself? Absolutely, and pretty easily. And I can recognize when it's right vs wrong. But it's marginally faster to have copilot do it instead of digging up the documentation.

It's more like a party trick than a trillion dollar revolution. The $20/month for a full time dev is probably around the break even point for the labor savings. It's not going to save THAT much time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Agreed, it’s not completely devoid of value, but it’s definitely not saving me any super meaningful time.

There’s some labor efficiency but I would be really surprised if it even got to an hour a week in productivity gains.