• TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    281·
    19 hours ago

    Timely post for me. My employer has decided to “standardize on Copilot” (after previously telling us to use Gemini but never getting us the wherewithal to actually utilize the corporate Gemini license they’d established; don’t ask me to make it make sense) and it’s possible they’ll soon start requiring us to use Copilot. I expressed to a coworker that "maybe there’s something that’s technically under the “Copilot” brand that is much less invasive and bullshit that we can use so we can say we’re “using Copilot” in a “malicious compliance” kind of way but not actually have to… you know, use an LLM for anything that’s going to fuck up our regular work. Like, maybe I can use the Copilot Outlook integration to send myself emails that I can somewhat plausibly claim to be reminders to myself. Following the letter, but not the spirit, of the “law”. Maybe I can even automate it. Whatever the case, if I was to do such a thing, this graphic could be a useful resource. Though for now, we haven’t yet gotten any mandate to “use Copilot.”

    We did something similar years ago. We were told we “had to use Spring” for a Java project we were building from scratch. So we used a tiny little piece of the Spring ecosystem of libraries. The Spring context, mostly. And some of the facilities that would scan for @Configuration classes. (Though we limited the packages it scanned pretty strictly.) Just so we could say “see, we used Spring”. But we used nothing but that. Most notably, we didn’t use Spring controllers or the DispatcherServlet. And even the parts of Spring that we did use, we only let certain portions of our codebase depend on Spring at all, just to limit how much contact our code even had with Spring.

      • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
        9·
        16 hours ago

        and why is it mandatory?

        Some companies’ C-suites have gotten their heads so far up their asses on AI that they’ve entirely forgotten about making money and the only metric they care about now is whether their company is using AI more than their competitors.

        It’s no longer about ‘how do we use AI to make money?’ – it’s about ‘how can we spend money to increase AI usage?’

        • kunaltyagi@programming.devEnglish
          6·
          16 hours ago

          LLM seem magic if you don’t have expertise in an area. Middle management and above don’t have any technical expertise in their domain do they love the 40% (a bit worse than the 80-20 rule) that LLM enable.

          Report: “Project is delayed because we are fixing a deadlock issue” Mgmt to LLM: “My project is delayed because of deadlock issue. What should I do?” LLM: “Oxidise your codebase and use Rust” Mgmt to team: “We should stop writing in C++ and use Rust 100%” Le Team has no rust experience and a 15 year old codebase in C++

      • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        17 hours ago

        I was only saying I was worried it might become mandatory in the future.

        But I’m pretty certain my employer will establish a corporate account with Microsoft for Copilot whereby my employer’s employees get the premium Copilot “features” (I use the term loosely) by logging in to Copilot using their employee credentials through some SSO integration between the two companies. And then Microsoft will probably provide usage data on a per-employee basis to my employer.

        My employer has a setup almost exactly like this with at least one other SaaS provider. The one I’m thinking of isn’t an LLM provider like Copilot. But my employer has made it clear that a) they’re monitoring usage by employees and b) usage (to the tune of a certain number of hours per week) is mandatory.

  • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.netEnglish
    14·
    17 hours ago

    Yo dog, we heard you liked copilot so we put copilot in your copilot so you can copilot while you copilot.

  • altphoto@lemmy.todayEnglish
    6·
    14 hours ago

    I hadn’t realized how much shit software microslop makes. Since all of it is shit, it makes sense to call it just one thing.

  • Tikiporch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    14 hours ago

    So I got the approval to use Planner Premium (Plan 3), only to find out that even though Copilot is in every other facet of my Office experience the one part of Planner that generates reports and project summaries requires a full-on Copilot license which we’re no longer going to be authorizing due to diminishing returns.

    This is at a Fortune 50 company that just hired a CIO from an AI company. The AI talk is just a smokescreen for layoffs. Sure we may have to hire everyone back in a few months, but we can pay them less. Fuck institutional knowledge anyway.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2·
    13 hours ago

    its like the supreme of the MS, they put supreme in front of everything to make it look bougie, instead its COPILOT on everything.

  • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    10 hours ago

    There’s a story from truckers, from years & years ago…

    A trucker was doing everything he could, to get as many runs done per week as he could.

    He was on … either cocaine or speed, don’t remember…

    His brain, being fucked-up, convinced him he could simply go up in back & sleep.

    the truck crashed.

    Who’d he leave the driving to?

    the “copilot”.

    That’s when whatever drug that was, became known among truckers as “copilot”.

    An imagined co-worker, who didn’t hold-up in real life.

    Exactly as MS copilot seems to be doing …

    Sometimes history rhymes…

    Sometimes’ it’s a perfect-note song.

    _ /\ _