Copilot and it's variations?

DHR · Tuesday at 21:44

Anyone delving into using copilot at home or even work?

I've started playing with Copilot for 365 and there is potential there, I'm just not fully convinced it's worth the price tag yet. I'm particularly liking it cutting down my email management time.

Any favourite prompts or agents you've come across?

becks · Tuesday at 22:27

Tried it briefly for Excel-heavy stuff, and yeah – some wow moments, but also a fair bit of “huh?” I’m still not sure if it’s smart or just fast at sounding smart. Curious if you’ve hit any sweet spots outside of mail cleanup? That’s the one thing I did find genuinely helpful.

DHR · Tuesday at 22:29

Excel they don't seem focused on at the moment. Teams meeting transcriptions, and summaries are gold, found that really useful.

Edit - Meeting slots too e.g. find me a 15 min slot with Dave in the next two weeks.

Trifid · Wednesday at 06:50

Team meeting summaries are good for a record, but often downplays moments of significance. I.e. a big discussion about "x will not work and we need a significant change in direction" gets changed to "person raised concerns about x".

I haven't found it particularly good at other work tasks either. I.e. I fed it a large log file and said x event happened, what caused it? It speculated or made up causes.

Hutch · Wednesday at 07:02

My employer (software dev) is really focussed on use of this technology right now, so much so that they started looking into tooling to measure how much people make use if it :confused:

So do a fair bit in agent mode in visual studio code.

It is bloody useful to be fair, but have found it struggles sometimes with tasks on existing projects which have complexity. When you want to start something new it can do most of the grunt work for you and you just need to ask it to make refinements or do yourself.

As a nice perk I do get unlimited use outside of work though