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Stephanie Hoback
Aug 16, 2024Iron Contributor
Microsoft's Copilot: A Frustrating Flop in AI-Powered Productivity
Microsoft's Copilot was supposed to be the game-changer in productivity, but it's quickly proving to be a massive disappointment. The idea was simple: integrate AI directly into Word, Excel, PowerPoi...
Surya1
Nov 18, 2025Copper Contributor
Copilot is frustrating, and I agree that rather than helping, it just wastes time. What frustrates me more is its inability to understand instruction, where other LLMs perform these tasks effortlessly.
It seems to have its own agenda and is unwilling to do what users want it to do. Why does it have to summarise everything, even when specifically asked not to do so?
It doesn't understand the context, and still, it will do what it wants to do regardless of what you prompt or how you prompt. And "No" it is not bad prompts as ChatGPT, Claude, and perplexity are all capable of producing perfect answers with half the effort.
Microsoft, please sort out this rubbish!