"Suleyman took a break from the Copilot company's San Francisco Ignite shindig to exclaim "Jeez there so many cynics!" and calling it "mindblowing" that people are unimpressed with AI. Suleyman's tweet came after Microsoft posted: "Copilot finishing your code before you finish your coffee." Both statements demonstrated how horrendously disconnected the Copilot company is from its users. AI is undoubtedly impressive technology. Setting aside Elon Musk's rather sad application, the advances in artificial intelligence have been jaw-dropping."
"However, being impressed by AI should not be confused with a desire to shoehorn it into every product and service. Microsoft's Ignite event is a perfect illustration of this. Whether a customer likes it or not, Copilot and AI agents are coming, ready to do their bidding, or, as is depressingly more likely, primed to misunderstand their instructions and do something else entirely."
"Perhaps it is best to look away from the precipitous decline in the quality of the company's output. Suleyman said: "I grew up playing Snake on a Nokia phone! Snake turned up in 1998. Imagine if, just a decade or so earlier, Suleyman had struck up a conversation with the text adventure game engines employed by Infocom and Magnetic Scrolls. Mindblowing, indeed.""
Microsoft executives posted upbeat AI marketing messages that clashed with strong user and developer skepticism. Promotional lines like Copilot "finishing your code before you finish your coffee" drew derisive responses from developers and observers. AI continues to deliver significant technical advances, particularly in pattern identification and scientific applications, but aggressive integration into every product raises concerns about misunderstanding, reduced output quality, and overreach. Claims that a large share of company code is AI-generated signal ambitions beyond simple autocomplete. Nostalgic references to early games were used in ways that underscored the perceived disconnect with users.
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