Wow, terrible news that companies that use ai are completely fcking themselves over. Whatever will we do to save the selfish prcks?
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2026
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We got the hell we deseve :D
My work mandated we use the copilot. And the only thing I have found it really good at is converting or extracting information from a PDF to build me a spreadsheet. The native conversion programs in both Adobe and Excel suck so bad.
I have some suppliers who won't send a spreadsheet or CSV nothing that is data, only a PDF.
It's a stupid and computationally expensive way to do it but does solve a problem for me, a problem that doesn't need to exist at all but has frustrated me for years.
Two birds, one stone. I can honestly say to my boss that I am using the copilot for work, and it's a workaround for the insufficient reporting I get from our payroll provider in particular, but also some bulk invoices that are detailed and only come as PDF.
So yes I am in this group. I've only used it for file type conversion, and once to "write" a process document just so it would be formatted in Word, I went in and wrote over most of it.
I showed multiple morons how to doctor up their safety photos using copilot in hopes that it cost the company i contract for insane money. I dunno if its helping but I'm doing my part?
