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>>laiysb+(OP)
Do we know for a fact there are Microsoft employees who were told they have to use CoPilot and review its change suggestions on projects?

We have the option to use GitHub CoPilot on code reviews and it’s comically bad and unhelpful. There isn’t a single member of my team who find it useful for anything other than identifying typos.

>>cebert+t
> Do we know for a fact there are Microsoft employees who were told they have to use CoPilot and review its change suggestions on projects?

It wouldn't be out of character, Microsoft has decided that every project on GitHub must deal with Copilot-generated issues and PRs from now on whether they want them or not. There's deliberately no way to opt out.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159749

Like Googles mandatory AI summary at the top of search results, you know a feature is really good when the vendor feels like the only way they can hit their target metrics is by forcing their users to engage with it.

>>jshear+E
>Like Googles mandatory AI summary at the top of search results, you know a feature is really good when the vendor feels like the only way they can hit their target metrics is by forcing their users to engage with it.

People like to compare "AI" (here, LLM products) to the iPhone.

I cannot make sense of these analogies; people used to line up around the block on release day for iPhone launches for years after the initial release.

Seems now most people collectively groan when more "innovative" LLM products get stuffed into otherwise working software.

This stuff is the literal opposite of demand.