Probably GitHub Copilot.
The rest just sucks.
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2026
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They utterly trashed their OS, a globally ~dominant cash cow, at an astonishing pace. By completely, eagerly (forcibly!) jumping the gun on exciting new tech, maybe the single above-all "thing you never do with anything even like a cash cow of any shape or size".
As in, that is known - viscerally, below the level of words or even thought, as if that knowledge originates from another realm - by anyone who has ever actually been directly responsible for any valuable piece of technology.
The depth of ignorance and really just flat-out juvenile naivety (fueled by naked greed) that produced this is something I'll probably be thinking about for the rest of my life. Truly amazing, just historically, I mean mythically foolish.
This dude has been locked into this outcome for a long time, and it's getting increasingly obvious how disastrous it is.
There are no dances left for him to perform except "it's really not that bad!"
Hey, Satya. You aren't fooling anyone and you don't have the knack of bald-faced lying like Kristi and Donny.
Copilot: forces an AI summary at the top of every word document, intercepts every copy and paste, is injected in every search result
Stays: People love this shit, they use it all the time!
I use the office apps for college and I avoid the AI, its annoying, it pops up and im usually saying " wtf is this" no i need a blank document
"The source is that I made it the fuck up!"
Seems to count in 2026.
Lol, no
Doubt
X
Because Slopya has been shoving it down our throats everywhere. Office, Windows, GitHub,...
I used it for my first time this year. For like a week. That was all.
Then you're part of “monthly active Copilot users” - at least for that month
Indeed. Haven't touched it since
I'd believe him more if it was opt in and very clearly let folks know.
To be fair, there are a fair amount of Linux users on Lemmy.as for the millions who’ve never heard of Lemmy? I’m not confident they are not. Especially given the crap we have to clean out of my parent’s computer every couple months.
Weren't they just begging us to use their slop machine like a week ago? Now it's being used "a lot"? Sure Jan, lie to pump the stock.
Their stock price dropped 10% last night. Desperation is sinking in.
I use it for .net syntax and .net lib references I figure if it's good for anything it's that. I also used it to write a soulless email about communication and accountability I had to send a dev after he just set himself out of office for 4 days and missed his deliverable deadline.
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It's like they need this to be true
Absolutely NOT in office/email/whatever. But I must say copilot in vscode is very useful, auto-completion and for small tasks, it can generates code not that bad, just need small mod here and there and that's it.
Well, if you count its uninstall feature, sure.
Since they renamed M362 to Copilot the usage numbers have been off the chart!
AI executives don't matter
of course they are, slop boy.
never did, never will ✨
That sounds expensive. Is it making money?