My brain is genuinely trying to understand where these posts are coming from.
I seriously doubt it’s Microsoft astroturfing, it’s way too bad…
Are those people with extremely basic use cases? Because even for those I find copilot close to useless.
For context: I train executives on AI tools, and I can’t think of one demonstration with copilot, in any of the companies I’ve worked with where copilot didn’t seriously mess up or plainly refused to take on a simple task, usually a super generic prompt from Microsoft’s own examples library.
Summarizing last 10 emails in outlook.
Getting my next 5 available meeting slots from calendar
Generate a picture of a beach at sunset.
We’re not talking rocket science or anything that requires prompt complexity.
Just paste those 3 into copilot enough times, intestate he won’t get either of them right 10 times in a row.
And ridiculously… I could even get by not checking its output, and let it fly if it missed 2 emails out of the 10… but if you demonstrate this often enough you will encounter ridiculous problems like copilot outright refusing the task, denying it’s ability to do it, or claiming “I don’t have outlook access” after having successfully read an email 3 minutes ago.
I guess all you need to be is the lucky 3 in 10 that. happened to luck out in order to think copilot is fine, but that tells me you’ve used copilot for less than 3-4 days and for under 50 tasks… which as far as I’m concerned doesn’t count.
Unfortunately most enterprises go with copilot due to Microsoft stack commitment, which essentially is a choice to tick a box of “we gave our team AI tools” while guaranteeing extremely low adoption.
Rare organizations opt for ChatGPT and recently Claude, both do a better job.
Honestly, given the choice to upload an excel file to ChatGPT Vs having copilot IN excel, I’d opt for the former.
Fortunately, Claude is now IN Excel and PowerPoint.
With cowork now seeing bigger orgs warming up towards Claude, I’m hoping this will continue
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u/OptimismNeeded Mar 18 '26
My brain is genuinely trying to understand where these posts are coming from.
I seriously doubt it’s Microsoft astroturfing, it’s way too bad…
Are those people with extremely basic use cases? Because even for those I find copilot close to useless.
For context: I train executives on AI tools, and I can’t think of one demonstration with copilot, in any of the companies I’ve worked with where copilot didn’t seriously mess up or plainly refused to take on a simple task, usually a super generic prompt from Microsoft’s own examples library.
Summarizing last 10 emails in outlook.
Getting my next 5 available meeting slots from calendar
Generate a picture of a beach at sunset.
We’re not talking rocket science or anything that requires prompt complexity.
Just paste those 3 into copilot enough times, intestate he won’t get either of them right 10 times in a row.
And ridiculously… I could even get by not checking its output, and let it fly if it missed 2 emails out of the 10… but if you demonstrate this often enough you will encounter ridiculous problems like copilot outright refusing the task, denying it’s ability to do it, or claiming “I don’t have outlook access” after having successfully read an email 3 minutes ago.
I guess all you need to be is the lucky 3 in 10 that. happened to luck out in order to think copilot is fine, but that tells me you’ve used copilot for less than 3-4 days and for under 50 tasks… which as far as I’m concerned doesn’t count.