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From when my teammate wanted us to use Google Docs to to collaborate on a paper. A intrusive, poor experience that you cannot turn off. I feel sad for every soul whose manager mandates that they’re ‘excited’ about using shitty manifestations of the wealthy and undeservedly powerful’s ill-informed glee at potentially replacing them.

Document editor showing a contextual, shitty Help me write AI suggestion shortcut.
Two prominent shit buttons: “Generate document” and “Help me write.”
AI writing assistant prompt suggesting an unrelated email task.

Nobody Likes You

Microsoft has cut its sales targets for its agentic AI software after struggling to find buyers interested in using it. In some cases, targets have been slashed by up to 50%, suggesting Microsoft overestimated the potential of its new AI tools. Indeed, compared with ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, Copilot is falling behind, raising concerns about Microsoft’s substantial AI investment.

Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot”, ExtremeTech

“Overestimated” makes it sound like an error when it really isn’t. When I log onto office.com, the legendary apps I’m there to use for collaboration are now relegated to a separate view via link that’s pushed all the way to the bottom.

My smolbrain really does not understand the endgame here.