Copilot when enmeshed in a full M365 enterprise environment is useful. Some higher up asked me for an update on everyone’s progress on their tasks (no one updates the DevOps board). I open the meeting event and then ask copilot for an update. Since the meeting was recorded and transcribed, it gave me an accurate summary which I copy pasted to the higher up.
Why couldnt the higher up just ask copilot themselves? Corporate organization!!! This and similar are good use cases for copilot.
As a standalone LLM, it’s kind of fun but it’s garbage. Just like ChatGPT. Not reliable, quotes sources but half the time it says the opposite of what the source actually states, completely useless for any task that requires precision or analysis.
It convinces the higher ups that it’s good though. And this is because higher ups are mostly completely technology-illiterate. Most people are tech illiterate too.
I use it for specific code syntax for .net but not for the grand scheme stuff. I do wish I had it integrated in visual studio to do some of the really annoying refractors that are in a billion spots but only require a small change. I don’t trust it for anything beyond what I would trust the greenest jr dev to do, and just like the jr dev it is going to mess up even the simple things so keep a close eye on it.
Copilot when enmeshed in a full M365 enterprise environment is useful. Some higher up asked me for an update on everyone’s progress on their tasks (no one updates the DevOps board). I open the meeting event and then ask copilot for an update. Since the meeting was recorded and transcribed, it gave me an accurate summary which I copy pasted to the higher up.
Why couldnt the higher up just ask copilot themselves? Corporate organization!!! This and similar are good use cases for copilot.
As a standalone LLM, it’s kind of fun but it’s garbage. Just like ChatGPT. Not reliable, quotes sources but half the time it says the opposite of what the source actually states, completely useless for any task that requires precision or analysis.
It convinces the higher ups that it’s good though. And this is because higher ups are mostly completely technology-illiterate. Most people are tech illiterate too.
I use it for specific code syntax for .net but not for the grand scheme stuff. I do wish I had it integrated in visual studio to do some of the really annoying refractors that are in a billion spots but only require a small change. I don’t trust it for anything beyond what I would trust the greenest jr dev to do, and just like the jr dev it is going to mess up even the simple things so keep a close eye on it.