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Is anyone else just tired?

That’s exactly it.

Nothing really improves my life in this fad. The promises are not matching with reality and the sacrifices made everywhere else (quality, reliability, security) is where we are paying.

I work for Microsoft and obviously my opinions are my own, but I am pretty underwhelmed by all the Copilots. Besides Teams meeting summarization, they are all pretty worthless. I’ve never understood text generation in Word or Outlook. Anything worth saying requires a ton of detail that you have to type into the prompt and then lose in the context of generation.

Ah, but you wrote a comment that was cogent.

My colleague who can't do that due to dyslexia is relieved when the AI can rephrase him to sound "fancy". As kids move their communication from keyboards to touch keyboards, I think this will become more common.

Yes please take my comment with a huge grain of salt. I’ve seen massive communication benefits for people with disabilities and people who are not native speakers

> Besides Teams meeting summarization, they are all pretty worthless.

Wait, does that actually work? I’ve only experienced the Zoom one, which, while occasionally quite _funny_, is not what you’d call useful.

I am very impressed with Team’s summaries. Obviously it’s a summary, so you won’t get all the details. Also it’s great at listing action items that were declared in the meeting.

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