To think CoPilot is fucking useless?

[DeftGoldHedgehog]

Everything I ask it to do it would have been quicker to do myself, or it's "Sorry I can't do that, Dave."

I'm asking it to file messages in my inbox into my existing folders, to see what is in each folder I've already filed and file messages accordingly. Surely this should be an easy task and ideal for AI, especially one that is supposed to be intergrated with other apps from the same creator? Apparently it can only create rules to do this or a filing strategy and can't see the Outlook 'message identifiers' to be able to move anything.

May as well go and bash my head against a wall, it would be more productive.

As long as you don't pay for it, AI is worth every penny.

Or, to put it another way, the free tiers are good enough.

What has it got to with ai slop? The op is talking about cowork type functions and yes, copilot should be able to do it. I mostly use Claude and I'm mostly happy with it. I've never used copilot.

Not for me. I burn through my £90 Claude sub. I also have chat gpt £20 too (half price via PayPal plus). It pays for itself though via the 'ai slop' I produce...

What AI slop has to do with it is that well considered, thoughtful work is being replaced by generic AI shit.

The world is literally deskilling and allowing AI to take over their jobs before our eyes.

If AI can't help you get free AI, then it's not much use elsewhere.

I love Copilot, but I have the premium version and have spent a good chunk of time getting it set up properly.
We've recently switched to a new accounting system (and as a non-finance person, who's now in charge of the finances), it's been fabulous as help, whereas before I'd have spent an age Googling and gone down blind alleys.
We have a 240 page document that contains all the history, management plans etc for my workplace (I work at a heritage site) and I've trained an agent to be this document. It's really useful.
Also great for things like 'make me a spreadsheet to calculate and track annual leave entitlement' that would have taken me hours to work out - done in 10 mins.
You need to be very specific, check things and let it know when its wrong. And use agents as experts in certain tasks.

I use local models too but nothing matches the speed and quality of Claude’s best models.