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I've brought MS Copilot licenses for my company in ~ February 2023. They were sold in a yearly commitment and offered no trials. A bad deal, but I was afraid of missing out AI productivity gains.

I'm definitely not renewing those. Times are hard and the value provided does not justify the cost.

I wonder how many companies will do the same.

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I recently personally resubscribed to copilot after cancelling my subscription a couple months ago since it was not providing value. But now with the new/beta “Edit” mode and being able to specify to use o1, o1 mini, and sonnet 3.5, the $10 a month feels a lot more worth it. The edit mode has outperformed aider for me.

Sorry, I think we are talking about different stuff.

I was referring to Copilot for M365, which costs 30 USD / month and targets biz users.

Github Copilot is definitely worth it.

Oh wow, I definitely misunderstood, all the “Copilot” usage by MS/Github got me mixed up

I've found Copliot to be really good at generating funny memes and haikus for specific issues/tasks where I work. The productivity gains come from me not having to use Photoshop and have more time to browse websites like this one.

In some cases it is useful, like in Excel where it can generate formulas or describe an approach to a problem. Not different than GH Copilot. The same for MS Power Automate editor AI assistent.

But in other cases like Word or Outlook it is just a louzy summarizer and does not have much added value.

That's surprising. I haven't met a single user who found Copilot useful in Excel.

I've found some that enjoyed using it a "smart auto complete" both in Word and Outlook, however.

Most of my users are financial analysts.

Interesting because I pay for Copilot and Supermaven, although most of my coworkers don't. To be fair, it was twisting their arms to get them to use linters, formatters, and other tools so I think asking them to use AI auto-complete is a bit much right now.

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