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Posted by WhyNotHugo 4 hours ago

What Is Copilot Exactly?(idiallo.com)
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workfromspace 2 hours ago|
Here's ChatGPT's list of product names with "Copilot" (aka FrustationPilot):

https://chatgpt.com/share/69cd6af5-f74c-8388-971e-d4b85ce04d...

Copilot Agents

Copilot Analytics

Copilot Chat

Copilot Cowork

Copilot for Finance (later renamed to “Finance Agents”)

Copilot GPT Builder

Copilot in Bing

Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps (Word, Excel...)

Copilot in Microsoft Edge

Copilot Labs

Copilot Plugins

Copilot Search

Copilot Studio

GitHub Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Copilot Pro

Microsoft Security Copilot

Sales Copilot

Service Copilot

Windows Copilot

gwerbin 2 hours ago|
This is the most Microsoft thing ever.

And shows up even when you are trying to use one specific Copilot. I want to try Copilot CLI, but it only seems half documented. A lot of things point back to Copilot in VS Code (or Jetbrains and Eclipse).

unyttigfjelltol 3 hours ago||
The weird thing is some of the capabilities of these different Copilots are completely different, even though presented in the same way. The real pain begins when you assume consistent handling of links to objects in M365. It’s far less intuitive than even this article suggests. Two different prompts even in the same browser tab, different Copilots, different capabilities interacting with the rest of M365.
collabs 4 hours ago||
It feels like a long time ago but around late 2022 or early 2023 ish, I used Copilot very extensively. I thought it was a superpower.

I even went in and edited the text area size iirc from 8k to 32k or something just so I could paste longer context into it.

I really felt like an elite haxor.

However, times have changed. What was "state of the art" in 2023 is pedestrian now. Copilot really had an early lead, in my opinion when Bard felt somewhat off. Now? I don't even think about Copilot. I feel very comfortable putting my thoughts in Claude or even Gemini.

zokier 3 hours ago|
Depending on which Copilot you are talking about, it became generally available in mid to late 2023.
genidoi 3 hours ago||
> So I asked him. "What is your developer workflow using Copilot?" I was not prepared for the answer he gave me:

I don’t know why I get annoyed when LLM’s and their output are casually referred to as “he/she”, particularly by non-techies, but I do. There’s something about personifying an LLM that seems incorrect. Perhaps it’s a fear being stoked that increasingly, people might actually be thinking of LLM’s as living beings.

laszlokorte 3 hours ago||
Isn't the line you quoted about asking a real person co-worker?
genidoi 3 hours ago||
Oh it is yeah.
daemonologist 3 hours ago||
I'm pretty sure they're referring to their coworker as "he," not an LLM.
bigbuppo 3 hours ago||
I too love Copilot 365 OneDrive Fabric for Business E5 powered by Yammer P2.
outside2344 2 hours ago|
... Enterprise Edition
woah 2 hours ago||
Why do they all start with C?
didibus 4 hours ago||
> "Actually, I made a mistake. I meant Cursor."

ROFL

sgarman 3 hours ago||
A 10x engineer who doesn't even know what tools they are using?
danbrooks 3 hours ago|||
Amazing ending. I have been told "no one should be using copilot" - and I agree!
hurfdurf 2 hours ago|||
Yeah, coffee was spilled here. What a twist.
operatingthetan 4 hours ago||
> Cursor

Might as well be Copilot at this point with how CLIs have been adopted.

minnzen 3 hours ago||
The gap between "AI autocomplete" and "AI agent with tool use" keeps widening. Copilot is still in the first camp.
alkonaut 3 hours ago|
Copilot cli isn’t as good as Claude but it’s not just fancy autocomplete either. Copilot cli seems to be converging with the rest and you can use mcp servers, skills, launch fleets of agents that use tools etc.
yieldcrv 3 hours ago||
developers are far too pedantic to make a mistake like that

sometimes imposter syndrome is completely because you are an interloper

I question this 10x dev that OP was talking to

voxleone 2 hours ago|
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