Fine do whatever you want to your shit company stop forcing me to use copilot on everything. This is worse than the failed clippy
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2025
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The only hope for Microsoft is if Xbox takes over all of Microsoft and transforms the whole company
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Windows is already garbage when humans are codeding it.
Yuuuup this is my company too. They’re monitoring our GH Copilot /Cursor usage and they’re going to apply to our performance reviews
Malicious compliance time, full-on Vibe coding, just accept all changes. Who cares about optimisation, readability, or documentation. You're using AI anything goes.
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I feel like this is going to cause so many problems in the near future. They’re not ready for it and they don’t even know.
They must really want their workforce to be less efficient while dramatically lowering quality and security across the board.
They are banking on the AI will eventually be smart enough that it will replace the workers that fed it.
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How very corporate of them: people don't want to do something? Screw finding out why, let's make it mandatory and poof, problem solved!
Apparently no longer optional for their customers either, based on how hard they are pushing it in Office 365, sorry Microsoft 365, no sorry Microsoft 365 Copilot.
The latest change of dumping you into a Copilot chat immediately on login and hiding all the actually useful stuff is just desperation incarnate.
The process to log in to the online portal of Outlook is so bad it's crossed into comical territory. So much friction, only to shunt you to a full screen ~~clippy~~ copilot page.
I'd be curious to know what the usage statistics are for that page. Like, what could a person possibly accomplish there?
Corporate monopoly with overpriced products doing corporate shit
Being judged by a fancy magic 8 ball, the future keeps getting better and better.
At your next job interview ask them if they are results driven or methodology driven. "If I were to take twice as long to do something by using a poorly designed tool will I be rewarded or punished?"
At my company too but it's owned by yet another cancerous private equity firm so it was expected.
Same at my company. The frustrating part is they want us to use coding assistance, which is fine, but I really don't code that much. I spend most of my time talking to other teams and vendors, reading docs, filing tickets, and trying to assign tasks to Jr devs. For AI to help me with that I need to either type all of my thoughts into the LLM which isn't efficient at all or I need it to integrate with systems I'm not allowed to integrate with because there are SLOs that need to be maintained (i.e. can't hammer the API and make others experience worse).
So it's pretty much the same as it's always been. Instead of making a gallon of lemonade out of one lemon I need to use this "new lemonade machine" to start a multinational lemonade business.
The key highlight being: you don't need more than a gallon of lemonade. I for once wished big corps heard their engineers and domain experts over wall street loving exec's.
Why would they do that? If they're making better quarterly results by listening to Wall St, that's what the system tells them to do.
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Chowtime boys 🐕
I can tell
Yes but can it tell the business why it can't deliver on time with they change the requirements 3 different times?
I had an interesting conversation today with an acquaintance. He has sent his resumé to dozens of companies now. Most of them, but not all, corporate blobs.
He wondered for a while just why the hell no one is even reaching out (he's definitely qualified for most of the positions). He then came to the idea to ask a particular commercial Artificial Stupidity software to parse it. Most of those companies use that software, or at least that's what the vendor says on its website. Turns out, that PoS software gets it all wrong. As in: everything. Positions and companies get mixed up, dates aren't correctly registered, the job descriptions it claims to have understood only remotely match what he wrote. Read: things even the most junior programmer with two weeks of experience would get right.
And it is getting used pretty much by every big firm out there.
Oh and BTW: There is ONE correct answer to the phrase 'using AI is no longer optional' : Fuck you.
That's not AI. That's just ATS. And it's been shit for years. Definitely, definitely, make sure your resume is ATS compatible. Use the scanners.
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I’m gonna be looking for a new job soon and I’ve been reading stuff like this more & more. Makes me really scared. I guess reaching out to recruiters directly via LinkedIn is more important than ever. I also hope the AI software hasn’t made its way down to small/medium-sized companies yet, since those are the ones I’d rather work for anyways
Your resume is ATS compatible. that's a non-negotiable point nowadays.
small/medium sized companies
Sadly, those are worse. Since they don’t have the staff or expertise, most of the time they outsource to larger companies… that use AI. I’m almost 99% positive at this point if any of the sites use Workday, it’s getting parsed by an AI because that’s what ours does and it’s a PITA.
Good luck with that Microsoft