Technology

You only get the capability in copilot to query the licensing if you have CoPilot E4 or an F3 with the monthly add on or attained a copilot ISV but then you have a limited entitlement linked to the base agreement and you need to purchase additional seats but they are of a different tier which need to be upgraded etc etc etc

To be fair, I'm not sure a single human could tell me that accurately either...

Or what has actually transitioned between AD, AzureAD, EntraID, and the works

Yes.The ability to do speech-to-text and text to-speech with a relatively high level of speed and accuracy is impressive. And it has at least a few potentially positive real world applications.

Similar tools have existed for years but the quality and user friendliness of those has generally been pretty lacking.

IKR? For what it costs and for how hard Microsoft has worked to shoehorn it into everything, it offers very little in terms of increased productivity. I would go so far as to call it an epic failure. Especially considering they spent vast sums of money on it and all they managed to produce was something that is at best marginally good at drafting emails.

As far as a coding assistant, Copilot is pathetic and produces code that is utter trash much of the time.

AFAIK compilot just provides integration with visual studio and GitHub, it doesn't have its own models. You pay through Microsoft to use use other companies' models (like GPT or Claude). Though agent harness itself has a big impact on the performance of models.

Isn't copilot using GPT 5.6? I have always wondered why it's still so bad despite that.

The hate comes from the people whose lives are being made materially worse as a result of the prominence of LLMs

They're incredibly inefficient environmentally, causing companies to want to do nothing but build increasingly loud, power-hungry data centers.

They've only exasperated the K shaped economy we currently live in where the ownership class takes everything, and everyone else gets crumbs.

All the while LLMs produce misinformation, lifeless "art" and propaganda almost exclusively.

Machine Learning was useful, LLMs are slop machines that make everything worse.

There are a lot of people with limited agency over their own work or personal lives, and are at the receiving end of other people's decisions.

Resentment can build when they perceive outside forces impacting their lives and personal well-being negatively. Sometimes this comes to define them as a person, in a self-reinforcing spiral of doom.

For most well adjusted people in decent work and social circles, we can take a more nuanced view, being both critical and optimistic as needed, and finding satisfaction in making the world work for us.

Consider yourself privileged.

(on 1TB memory)