Executive Julia Liuson recently told Microsoft managers to include internal AI tool usage when evaluating employee performance.
  • TwitchingCheese@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • voluble@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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?

  • UltraBlack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Can’t wait for code quality to drop, work to become more inefficiwnt and microsoft ditching AI

  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    They must really want their workforce to be less efficient while dramatically lowering quality and security across the board.

    • isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      except programmers are gonna continue with what they were already doing, at most putting a script on copilot to get the metrics

      don’t forget that if you don’t turn in the project in time you’re fired, the issues always get thrown at the coder, it’s never the company’s fault

      • absquatulate@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Company I’m at also does the forced AI and it’s all but mandatory now. Problem is as code monkeys we’re past the point of heading down to the Winchester for a pint until it blows over. They’re pushing so hard in order to “not fall behind” that you literally can’t escape it. I think even malicious compliance won’t cut it. And when 8/10 companies that dictate the market say that “this is the future”, then this is the future they’ll make whether we like it or not.

        Edit: the silver lining is that we’re working with tools that are better than copilot at generating menial work like generating boilerplate code, unit tests, release notes, walls of text for app documentation etc.

          • absquatulate@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 year ago

            We’re in the honeymoon phase, shit didn’t hit the fan yet. Problem is we devs are fucked either way. If productivity does increase, then workforce demand will go down especially for entry level devs and seniors will be relegated to vibe coding and fixing AI bugs. If it all goes south then layoffs, because line must go up!

    • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
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      1 year ago

      They are banking on the AI will eventually be smart enough that it will replace the workers that fed it.

  • doctortofu@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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!

  • FauxPseudo @lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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?”

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Using AI isn’t optional? How about you review me on the results I produce instead of the tools I use to produce them?

  • Flames5123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s the same in Amazon software development. We have like 3 different AI tools. I enjoy it for unit tests and predicting the next two lines of a simple thing, but it’s not going to refactor our codebase.