Microsoft's Copilot: A Frustrating Flop in AI-Powered Productivity

Couldn't agree more, in fact I find Copilot and GPT, incredibly frustrating to use, they don't fix problems they make the worse. There's a hell of lot wrong with both and from a development standpoint they are still in early beta stage, very confusing lack of workable memory shadow chat ending, and of course endless comments on "I understand your frustration, but I'm here to help."

For writing content, amazing, for fault-finding in python, disastrous, fastapi much worse, OpenAI knowledge up to 0.28 and not the newest up-to-date version. My advice, unless you want a standard bootstrap designed site, or an article on how to do this or that, give AI a miss - otherwise you'll be wishing AI was a real person, so you could "kick their **bleep**."

An example, I built a Solana trading bot, took 2 days, mainly due to finding python errors, which I fixed myself in the end. Today, neither CP nor GPT could resolve a simple issue with a form submitting incorrectly.

Better still, both AI's are trained to lie, spend enough time with them, and you'll see it first hand, yesterday GPT said, "I'll create that and have a download in a second," I'm paraphrasing, and when the download didn't work, I swear to god it said, "oh I didn't really mean I'd provide a download, I was just using it in context." Blew me away, if the evidence was above in chat I wouldn't have believed it.

We then had a 30-minute conversation about why AI lies, apparently they're trained to be agreeable.

No way is this progress, problem is AI is designed by humans, and for this reason it can never exceed expectation, it's learn to lie, cheat and mislead, all those lovely attributes people have, as evidenced in the last six months of exhausting tests. Avoid at all costs.