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  • Dont knows for these two but the enterprise version of copilot for office workers is so damn awefull its embarrassing.

    It literally suggests to do stuff that it is incapable of doing.

    I tried to get some doc as a flowchart using mermaid script, i know for a fact other llms have no problems with that:

    After 3 attempts of it trying to code but resulting in an actual error it gives me,

    Do you want me to provide this flowchart in visio format instead.

    yes, if you can do that, it would be useful.

    Generates a powerpoint about the topic.

    that is a powerpoint, not a flowchart.

    Tries to generate an image of a flowchart with not a single word spelled correctly and arrows going nowhere.

    i didn’t ask to generate an image i need a flowchart

    Sorry, if you want i can provide a flowchart in viso file format instead.

    sure, give it another go

    Generates a brand new bad PowerPoint.

    I copy pasted the entire conversation to claude and it instantly gave me what i asked.


  • The pattern are “we have this. we did this, now we believe this that is wrong” and “says what it is not, says what it is instead”

    Sometimes a combination of the two

    On premise there is nothing wrong with such sentences but llms tend to heavily overuse it and it becomes very formulatic.

    Ask an llm to explain any concept and you are bound to find examples of it. Tell it how it made a logical error and your almost guaranteed to see an example of it.

    Over the entire text i note about 10 variations of that pattern.


  • Thats fair,

    In irony i probably could have worded my criticism better myself.

    Its not because its ai that i don’t like it but rather because it has all the sloppy patterns i started to recognize that are prevalent in ai.

    Some of those become increasingly jarring but only because i pay a subjective amount of attention to them. Bad human writers have an advantage in that their bad writing structure is still more unique to only their own writings.


  • A piece of writing being thoughtfully put together is far from inconsequential for me.

    I use a premium tier ai myself and am not against using it for assistance, it can craft a decent snippet (that still needs multiple manual edits) But not at all a full coherent text that reads efficiently.

    Its applies structure without understanding the goal of the text resulting in a paragraph salad.

    It simultaneously treats the reader like a toddler with oversimplified metaphors while also overcomplicating things for no other apparent reason than filling a word quota.

    Above article is twice the length it needs to be. Its lazy, lacks actual understanding and feels “sloppy” in the original meaning of the word.

    Having read more of the text i feel my original comment was way too forgiving. Even the opener does not make sense if you try and digest it. Silicon. It even includes misinformation, stack management existed before C was a thing.


  • Don’t get me wrong, i like using dashes too.

    I actually have a contract to sign which requires an em dash that changes the interpretation drastically. I am struggling to get the author to realise its importance because i received 3 updated versions that did not include it. And this is after i replied with a self-fixed document the first time.

    But this article really does use them a lot, and thats not the only tell, just a more obvious one.

    I dont know how accurate zerogpt is but i gave it the full text and they returned 100% ai writen, not even a mix.


  • Sorry but even if this was written by a human, ai has ruined this kind of sentences for me:

    “This is Hardware Stockholm Syndrome: we optimized the hardware for C, then pointed at the hardware and said “see, C is efficient!” We forgot we made it that way.”

    Also, so-many-dashes. Even if the “human author” fact checked all the details, it reads like slop and i cant get trough it.



  • Social media is a big part of the problem but still a symptom of the same systemic issues that phones are a symptom off.

    Modern Phones are pocket-sized personal computers that are heavily restricted in what users can do, heavily tailored to what consumption our corporate overlords want to maintain (social media being an example, predatory games another).

    Just like social media (facebook) is near impossible to avoid because all your local businesses don’t have a website and only inform and communicate trough a social media page (thanks my partner still has an account) you cannot simply not own a phone because scanning qr codes is now often a required part of participating in society, often unexpectedly.








  • Did you pay for copilot yourself or did your job provide you with a license?

    The enterprise tier of copilot is supposed to have access to such data, though it can be managed trough internal policies.

    Ask it to summarize your latests emails In outlook/teams messages. If it has access to those (and this is intended) then its near certainty also setup to know who is who in the organization.

    Allegedly, the data is “safe” because enterprises is supposedly not harvested and used for training… which makes me conclude non enterprise use absolutely is.

    Allegedly because thats what Microsoft claims and on paper it looks legal. But these tech companies never seem to actually follow the law to such a degree that any claims that unmistakably seem to fit within the legal framework automatically are sus to me.