{"slug": "microsoft-365-copilot", "name": "Microsoft 365 Copilot", "category": "ai", "category_name": "AI models and assistants", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 23, "warners": 11, "score": -3.85, "rising": 0.02, "first": "2025-11-17", "latest": "2026-09-26", "why": "I switched from the Copilot IDE plugin to the standalone Copilot 365 app, where it could explain the principles behind every step", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 8, "compare": 0, "warn": 12}, "spark": [1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I switched from the Copilot IDE plugin to the standalone Copilot 365 app, where it could explain the principles behind every step", "kind": "", "icon": false, "domain": "office.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Microsoft 365 Copilot"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 797664128, "item_id": 49854008, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854008", "by": "epihelix", "date": "2026-09-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Yes, with Enterprise M365 Copilot.", "excerpt": "Yes, with Enterprise M365 Copilot. Select \"GPT 5.6 Think deeper\" (ugh, so unrevealing, MS) and you've got free, unlimited Sol or Terra (likely a mix depending on load) on tap. It writes very nice, clean code with almost no comments. I use it a lot.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding and general use", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot"}, {"id": 797663200, "item_id": 49853950, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49853950", "by": "epihelix", "date": "2026-09-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the current Enterprise version, with the poorly-named \"GPT 5.6 think deeper\" option, is very decent indeed.", "excerpt": "That used to be the case, but the current Enterprise version, with the poorly-named \"GPT 5.6 think deeper\" option, is very decent indeed. Can't tell if it's Sol, Terra or a mixture of the two, but it's certainly not Luna. (Stick with the default \"Auto\" and you probably get Phi-4 -- it's lobotomised AF.) I use Copilot a lot now. Unlimited, free, high-quality, enterprise-protected inference is not to be sniffed at. It ", "context": "", "use_case": "coding and inference", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot"}, {"id": 747464448, "item_id": 46716528, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46716528", "by": "mcv", "date": "2026-01-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I switched from the Copilot IDE plugin to the standalone Copilot 365 app, where it could explain the principles behind every step", "excerpt": "This seems to confirm my feeling when using AI too much. It's easy to get started, but I can feel my brain engaging less with the problem than I'm used to. It can form a barrier to real understanding, and keeps me out of my flow. I recently worked on something very complex I don't think I would have been able to tackle as quickly without AI; a hierarchical graph layout algorithm based on the Sugiyama framework, using", "context": "", "use_case": "explaining algorithms", "switched_from": "GitHub Copilot", "story": "Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant"}, {"id": 735377520, "item_id": 45961095, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45961095", "by": "thewebguyd", "date": "2025-11-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it\u2019s been extremely useful to the non-tech folks at my work.", "excerpt": "That, and how many commenters in this thread are using something like Claude Code with their src directory as context? This is no different. It\u2019s [claude code/gemini CLI/codex] but for non-devs and with a GUI instead of a TUI. I feel like everyone here is overly dismissive of this because it\u2019s cool to hate Windows in these parts, but this could be genuinely useful for your average office drone. Much like we love to s", "context": "", "use_case": "Office assistant for non-tech staff", "switched_from": "", "story": "Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 781200161, "item_id": 48825010, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48825010", "by": "wolvoleo", "date": "2026-07-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Copilot is just not performing well.", "excerpt": "I have to say the only part of copilot in m365 I really like is cowork. We have a preview version of it and it's great to spar with it and give it recurring tasks to do. Finally something that actually actively helps. But that's billed separately on a token basis and cost really adds up. The other stuff is just not so useful to me. I use it a bit to search for emails and teams chats but that's also cause the search i", "context": "", "use_case": "email and Teams search", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption is under 4.5%, only 1% use it weekly"}, {"id": 761739856, "item_id": 47608741, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608741", "by": "ikidd", "date": "2026-04-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I can't see any value in it at all", "excerpt": "IDK how anyone makes anything of Copilot 365. My wife knows I use models all the time to build things, so she asked me to help her use this \"Copilot\" thing. I flailed around on her work laptop for a few hours and I'll be damned if I came up with anything more useful than things I could already do with some hotkeys. I'd ask it to do things like I would a coding model and it would just come back with instructions on ho", "context": "", "use_case": "office assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "What Is Copilot Exactly?"}, {"id": 761437248, "item_id": 47589828, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47589828", "by": "andy81", "date": "2026-03-31", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it contradicts all their other marketing about Copilot", "excerpt": "The only thing \"clear\" about that License agreement is it contradicts all their other marketing about Copilot. So either that document is fraudulent or everyone else at Microsoft is committing fraud daily. Examples from the first search result: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/microsoft-365-copilot-video-tutorials-25a1b328-79be-4e8a-af96-1f894e52bcf6 Support page with ~25 tutorials provided by Microsoft abou", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"}, {"id": 759949377, "item_id": 47496836, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496836", "by": "WatchDog", "date": "2026-03-23", "stance": "warn", "quote": "where it would give me random word descriptions in Hebrew", "excerpt": "I tried this in chatgpt, asking \" geschniegelt\" on a 5.2 instant temp chat, and got some interesting results. Sometimes it would reply with the correct definition of geschniegelt, the description would sometimes be in German, sometimes in English. Most of the time it would give me a definition for a different German word \"Geil\". For whatever reason, the most interesting results I got were via my work's m365 copilot i", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Chat GPT 5.2 cannot explain the German word \"geschniegelt\""}]}], "who": [{"by": "techniko", "context": "has work-provided subscription", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48825077", "date": "2026-07-07"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["coding and general use", "coding and inference", "accessing opus through work", "email and teams search", "enterprise ai assistant", "excel and m365 ai"], "compared": [{"slug": "github-copilot", "name": "GitHub Copilot", "co": 2, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "chatgpt", "name": "ChatGPT", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 755537760, "item_id": 47221110, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47221110", "by": "h4ck3rhn", "date": "2026-03-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We're the team making Copilot indispensable.", "excerpt": "Microsoft | Software Engineer II \u2013 M365 Copilot Growth | Redmond, WA | Full-time | Onsite We're the team making Copilot indispensable. Building AI features inside Word, Excel, Teams, Outlook, and the Copilot app that users actually reach for every day. You'll own capabilities end to end, run experiments that move the dial, and collaborate with designers + PMs to ship fast. The tech stack adapts to the problem. The im", "context": "", "use_case": "AI features in Office apps", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844896", "title": "Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824665", "title": "Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption is under 4.5%, only 1% use it weekly", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587866", "title": "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46148748", "title": "Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48683588", "title": "Why current LLM costs are not sustainable", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48374466", "title": "Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash Scores 51% SWE-Bench Pro with Just 5B Active Params", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 1}, "2025-12": {"neutral": 2, "warn": 1}, "2026-01": {"warn": 3, "neutral": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {"neutral": 1, "warn": 3}, "2026-03": {"warn": 3, "neutral": 1}, "2026-04": {"warn": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-07": {"warn": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 797664128, "item_id": 49854008, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854008", "by": "epihelix", "date": "2026-09-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Yes, with Enterprise M365 Copilot.", "excerpt": "Yes, with Enterprise M365 Copilot. Select \"GPT 5.6 Think deeper\" (ugh, so unrevealing, MS) and you've got free, unlimited Sol or Terra (likely a mix depending on load) on tap. It writes very nice, clean code with almost no comments. I use it a lot.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding and general use", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot"}, {"id": 797663200, "item_id": 49853950, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49853950", "by": "epihelix", "date": "2026-09-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the current Enterprise version, with the poorly-named \"GPT 5.6 think deeper\" option, is very decent indeed.", "excerpt": "That used to be the case, but the current Enterprise version, with the poorly-named \"GPT 5.6 think deeper\" option, is very decent indeed. Can't tell if it's Sol, Terra or a mixture of the two, but it's certainly not Luna. (Stick with the default \"Auto\" and you probably get Phi-4 -- it's lobotomised AF.) I use Copilot a lot now. Unlimited, free, high-quality, enterprise-protected inference is not to be sniffed at. It ", "context": "", "use_case": "coding and inference", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot"}, {"id": 781201233, "item_id": 48825077, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48825077", "by": "techniko", "date": "2026-07-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "It's a bit quirky in that it won't accept a lot of file formats, but appending .txt to the end works.", "excerpt": "Work gave me a subscription so I use Opus in M365 Copilot rather than paying for my own Claude/ChatGPT/etc. It's a bit quirky in that it won't accept a lot of file formats, but appending .txt to the end works. I also use https://github.com/simonw/files-to-prompt to combine everything into one file which also helps.", "context": "has work-provided subscription", "use_case": "accessing Opus through work", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption is under 4.5%, only 1% use it weekly"}, {"id": 781200161, "item_id": 48825010, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48825010", "by": "wolvoleo", "date": "2026-07-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Copilot is just not performing well.", "excerpt": "I have to say the only part of copilot in m365 I really like is cowork. We have a preview version of it and it's great to spar with it and give it recurring tasks to do. Finally something that actually actively helps. But that's billed separately on a token basis and cost really adds up. The other stuff is just not so useful to me. I use it a bit to search for emails and teams chats but that's also cause the search i", "context": "", "use_case": "email and Teams search", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption is under 4.5%, only 1% use it weekly"}, {"id": 779065952, "item_id": 48691622, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48691622", "by": "JBlue42", "date": "2026-06-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "For example, Microsoft 365 Copilot.", "excerpt": "Because no one knows what the true cost is, especially with how all the money is circular. For example, Microsoft 365 Copilot. A company might get a significant discount on the price per user for that SKU. What does that translate to? OpenAI is the actual brain behind it. So who ends up getting the money at the end? https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04/27/the-next-phase-of-the-microsoft-openai-partnership/ OpenAI", "context": "", "use_case": "enterprise AI assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why current LLM costs are not sustainable"}, {"id": 774058849, "item_id": 48378678, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378678", "by": "treesknees", "date": "2026-06-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "GitHub Copilot refuses to do any security testing or proof-of-concepts for exploits. While I understand why, we pay for Enterprise and I\u2019m working on our proprietary code base. It\u2019s incredibly annoying. I\u2019ve actually had luck taking the analysis from GHCP and pasting it into our M365 Copilot and getting a useful poc to stick into my bug reports.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash Scores 51% SWE-Bench Pro with Just 5B Active Params"}, {"id": 764584624, "item_id": 47786539, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47786539", "by": "interroboink", "date": "2026-04-15", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "A recent funny story on this topic: https://idiallo.com/blog/what-is-copilot-exactly HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603231", "context": "", "use_case": "Excel and M365 AI", "switched_from": "", "story": "ChatGPT for Excel"}, {"id": 761739856, "item_id": 47608741, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608741", "by": "ikidd", "date": "2026-04-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I can't see any value in it at all", "excerpt": "IDK how anyone makes anything of Copilot 365. My wife knows I use models all the time to build things, so she asked me to help her use this \"Copilot\" thing. I flailed around on her work laptop for a few hours and I'll be damned if I came up with anything more useful than things I could already do with some hotkeys. I'd ask it to do things like I would a coding model and it would just come back with instructions on ho", "context": "", "use_case": "office assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "What Is Copilot Exactly?"}, {"id": 761464768, "item_id": 47591548, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591548", "by": "owenm", "date": "2026-03-31", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "MS are quite open about accuracy for the business offerings", "excerpt": "No, I\u2019m saying that MS have different terms for their business and personal offerings (as do OpenAI and Anthropic). To be fair to them, MS are quite open about accuracy for the business offerings, see here as one example: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/microsoft-365/microsoft-365-copilot-application-card", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"}, {"id": 761437248, "item_id": 47589828, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47589828", "by": "andy81", "date": "2026-03-31", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it contradicts all their other marketing about Copilot", "excerpt": "The only thing \"clear\" about that License agreement is it contradicts all their other marketing about Copilot. So either that document is fraudulent or everyone else at Microsoft is committing fraud daily. Examples from the first search result: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/microsoft-365-copilot-video-tutorials-25a1b328-79be-4e8a-af96-1f894e52bcf6 Support page with ~25 tutorials provided by Microsoft abou", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"}, {"id": 759949377, "item_id": 47496836, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496836", "by": "WatchDog", "date": "2026-03-23", "stance": "warn", "quote": "where it would give me random word descriptions in Hebrew", "excerpt": "I tried this in chatgpt, asking \" geschniegelt\" on a 5.2 instant temp chat, and got some interesting results. Sometimes it would reply with the correct definition of geschniegelt, the description would sometimes be in German, sometimes in English. Most of the time it would give me a definition for a different German word \"Geil\". For whatever reason, the most interesting results I got were via my work's m365 copilot i", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Chat GPT 5.2 cannot explain the German word \"geschniegelt\""}, {"id": 759393472, "item_id": 47462092, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462092", "by": "aucisson_masque", "date": "2026-03-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "You want to take a look at Microsoft office, my bad Microsoft copilot 365", "excerpt": "You want to take a look at Microsoft office, my bad Microsoft copilot 365... You can't even select a cell on notepad without a freaking copilot button pooping up every single time. Same on word, that's maddening ! You could argue that windows isn't Microsoft copilot 365, but then, why do people even use windows ? It's always because of the office, my bad, copilot 365 suite.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Our Commitment to Windows Quality"}, {"id": 754529105, "item_id": 47158069, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47158069", "by": "mikestew", "date": "2026-02-25", "stance": "warn", "quote": "That\u2019s Microsoft 365 Copilot\u201d to you, buddy.", "excerpt": "That\u2019s Microsoft 365 Copilot\u201d to you, buddy. https://www.office.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"}, {"id": 753009649, "item_id": 47063103, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063103", "by": "carefulfungi", "date": "2026-02-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Chat is summarizing email messages even though these email messages have a sensitivity label applied", "excerpt": "> \"The Microsoft 365 Copilot 'work tab' Chat is summarizing email messages even though these email messages have a sensitivity label applied and a DLP policy is configured.\" I'd add (3) - a DLP policy is apparently ineffective at its purpose: monitoring data sharing between machines. (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/dlp-learn-about-dlp). Directly from the DLP feature page: > DLP, with collection policies, m", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails"}, {"id": 750342624, "item_id": 46896414, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46896414", "by": "jukkan", "date": "2026-02-04", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Copilot is technically unable to retrieve more than 24 email messages. Ever.", "excerpt": "Using the paid M365 Copilot ($30/mo) Chat and Researcher agent, I recently discovered an interesting limit: Copilot is technically unable to retrieve more than 24 email messages. Ever. We can't know if the answers I got from it are reliable but it seems like the Microsoft Graph API calls it makes and the tools Copilot has are missing the option to call the next page. So, a paginated response is missing all data beyon", "context": "paid M365 Copilot user", "use_case": "email search and chat", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft's Pivotal AI Product Is Running into Big Problems"}, {"id": 750295536, "item_id": 46893471, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46893471", "by": "codeulike", "date": "2026-02-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I believe you need to pay for an add-on called \"Microsoft 365 Copilot\"", "excerpt": "I believe you need to pay for an add-on called \"Microsoft 365 Copilot\" https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365-copilot", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"}, {"id": 747464448, "item_id": 46716528, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46716528", "by": "mcv", "date": "2026-01-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I switched from the Copilot IDE plugin to the standalone Copilot 365 app, where it could explain the principles behind every step", "excerpt": "This seems to confirm my feeling when using AI too much. It's easy to get started, but I can feel my brain engaging less with the problem than I'm used to. It can form a barrier to real understanding, and keeps me out of my flow. I recently worked on something very complex I don't think I would have been able to tackle as quickly without AI; a hierarchical graph layout algorithm based on the Sugiyama framework, using", "context": "", "use_case": "explaining algorithms", "switched_from": "GitHub Copilot", "story": "Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt When Using an AI Assistant"}, {"id": 747391744, "item_id": 46711984, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46711984", "by": "anonymars", "date": "2026-01-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "they've spent renaming Office 365 -> Microsoft 365 -> Microsoft 365 Copilot", "excerpt": "You're a little behind, it's Microsoft 365 Copilot Premium now (They may have turned it into a joke, but that is the truth https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/the-microsoft-365-app-transition-to-the-microsoft-365-copilot-app-22eac811-08d6-4df3-92dd-77f193e354a5) Maybe these days for interviews, instead of calculating how many golf balls fit in a schoolbus, they can calculate how much time, money, intellect, an", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11"}, {"id": 746568672, "item_id": 46660542, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46660542", "by": "wolvoleo", "date": "2026-01-17", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Only 1.8% of office subscription holders think it's worth paying for copilot.", "excerpt": "The market isn't AI everything. Only 1.8% of office subscription holders think it's worth paying for copilot. https://www.perspectives.plus/p/microsoft-365-copilot-commercial-failure The free Copilot chatbot stands at about 1%: https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/01/09/is-microsoft-losing-the-ai-race-copilot-web-is-still-stuck-at-1-market-share-we-dont-know-how-popular-it-is-on-windows-11/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch"}, {"id": 745205168, "item_id": 46575323, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46575323", "by": "theandrewbailey", "date": "2026-01-11", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use ~~Office 365~~ the Microsoft 365 Copilot App online all the time", "excerpt": "> Failing all that the web versions might work just fine. I use ~~Office 365~~ the Microsoft 365 Copilot App online all the time at work.", "context": "", "use_case": "Office documents online", "switched_from": "", "story": "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"}, {"id": 743713280, "item_id": 46482080, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46482080", "by": "toomuchtodo", "date": "2026-01-03", "stance": "warn", "quote": "create a paper trail (in the event of future regulatory or legal class action)", "excerpt": "https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/turn-off-copilot-in-microsoft-365-apps-bc7e530b-152d-4123-8e78-edc06f8b85f1 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2181664/how-do-i-get-rid-of-or-disable-copilot-in-all-micr If these do not solve your issue, please reach out to Microsoft support to inquire, create a paper trail (in the event of future regulatory or legal class action), and update us accordingly.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How to Disable Copilot in Office365?"}, {"id": 742370256, "item_id": 46398141, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46398141", "by": "ewoodrich", "date": "2025-12-26", "stance": "warn", "quote": "It's like Microsoft deliberately engineered 365 Copilot to be as unhelpful as possible", "excerpt": "Hah, I was listening to a similar conversation that began with family members working in the school system complaining about AI slop that began (relatively) harmlessly in day-to-day email conversations padded with time wasting filler but now has trickled down into \"professional\" education materials and even textbooks. Which led to a lot of agreement and rants from others with frustrating stories about their specific ", "context": "company piloting 365 Copilot", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI"}, {"id": 738429424, "item_id": 46151839, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46151839", "by": "ManuelKiessling", "date": "2025-12-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "I think what people want in the long term is truly malleable software: https://manuel.kiessling.net/2025/11/04/what-if-software-shipped-with-a-software-engineer/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas"}, {"id": 738423008, "item_id": 46151438, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46151438", "by": "aabajian", "date": "2025-12-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Maybe Copilot could learn that I do this and just...do it for me", "excerpt": "I think MSFT really needs some validated user stories. How many users want to, \"Improve my writing,\" \"Create an image,\" \"Understand what is changed\" (e.g. recent edits), or \"Visualize my data.\"? Those are the four use cases featured by the Microsoft 365 Copilot App (https://m365.cloud.microsoft/). Conversely, I bet there are a lot of people who want AI to improve things they are already doing repeatedly. For example,", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas"}, {"id": 735377520, "item_id": 45961095, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45961095", "by": "thewebguyd", "date": "2025-11-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it\u2019s been extremely useful to the non-tech folks at my work.", "excerpt": "That, and how many commenters in this thread are using something like Claude Code with their src directory as context? This is no different. It\u2019s [claude code/gemini CLI/codex] but for non-devs and with a GUI instead of a TUI. I feel like everyone here is overly dismissive of this because it\u2019s cool to hate Windows in these parts, but this could be genuinely useful for your average office drone. Much like we love to s", "context": "", "use_case": "Office assistant for non-tech staff", "switched_from": "", "story": "Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders"}]}