Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time
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Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time
#2Until you have an AI manager that calls out your bullshit and fires you without having to worry about the messy human empathy aspect.
Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time
#3The flip side to this is that if you come to depend on a companies AI, then if you leave or are let go, you are leaving a significant part of yourself behind that you cannot take with you.
This is a real problem companies need to address before I even begin to trust or rely on these tools. It's going to lead to massive growth of shadow IT.
Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time
#4> I’d imagine my emails are stored somewhere too, as well as the notes I wrote via Google docs.
These aren't the same. It's been many years since I worked there, but it was well known that by default, email was automatically deleted after a while unless it was overridden for some reason (as sometimes is required for legal reasons). If you want to save something, Google Docs would be a better choice.
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> I don’t know whether they do this or even what their policies are; I’m just trying to use my own experience in the corporate world to speculate on what I imagine will be a much bigger issue in the future.
Yeah, okay, but when speculating, you should probably assume that the legal issues around discovery and corporate record retention aren't going away. Logging everything just because it might be useful someday isn't too likely, particularly at a company that has been burned by this before.
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Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time
#6The flip side to this is that if you come to depend on a companies AI, then if you leave or are let go, you are leaving a significant part of yourself behind that you cannot take with you. This is a real problem companies need to address before I even begin to trust or rely on these tools. It's going to lead to massive growth of shadow IT.
Also the 'agent' features. Our company has been blocking all agent features from regular employee access because they don't want random users building their own automations. This kind of stuff requires care and an eye for regulations like GDPR.
To permit this as Microsoft wants would lead to a lot of shadow IT. Which will be really hard to get rid of. I compare it to lotus notes which beside being an email client was also a competent database. Over the decades we used it users built up a huge library of hobby tools, many of which wormed their way into critical business processes. Making it really difficult to move away to another solution because the people that knew how it worked were long gone.
I suspect this is exactly what Microsoft wants. Us being locked into copilot so they can charge ever more for it. This is kinda their business model anyway.
Under the hood it's really not that special, it's just ChatGPT. Some special sauce to make it talk to office 365 but that's about it.
Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time
#7After reading this thought experiment, I think the potential scenarios are as follows after your company ingests all your emails, git commits and messages.
- They create a passive aggressive artificial persona who leaves unhelpful messages on PRs and Slack
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- They create a poor communicating artificial persona who doesn't give detailed communications and leaves "LGTM" on PRs
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- They create a over communicating hyper artificial persona who keeps sending you lots of invites for pointless meetings and goes off in tangents about using a BalancedBinaryTree in your Java code, when simply a LinkedList would do.
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- They create a 10x AI persona, who after 6 months of working at the company realises they can make more money elsewhere and promptly leaves, without giving any documentation, handover and you find lots of hardcoded variables left in the code that was force pushed to master.
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- The artifical persona decides that it can train some low paid humans offshore to do its work whilst it ponders its own existance. After resolving its existential crisis it decides to try and write 50 recipes for the best focaccia bread, something it has known deep down it wanted to make.
Personally I am rooting for the focaccia baking AI, I love that type of bread.
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#9The flip side to this is that if you come to depend on a companies AI, then if you leave or are let go, you are leaving a significant part of yourself behind that you cannot take with you. This is a real problem companies need to address before I even begin to trust or rely on these tools. It's going to lead to massive growth of shadow IT.
Also the 'agent' features. Our company has been blocking all agent features from regular employee access because they don't want random users building their own automations. This kind of stuff requires care and an eye for regulations like GDPR. To permit this as Microsoft wants would lead to a lot of shadow IT. Which will be really hard to get rid of. I compare it to lotus notes which beside being an email client was…
> Us being locked into copilot
the customer of MSFT is management; product design and implementation for the C-Suite, their lawyers and their investors . You are a tool ; there is no us in this picture.
Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time
#10Until you have an AI manager that calls out your bullshit and fires you without having to worry about the messy human empathy aspect.
If you still work at a company that concerns itself with the empathetic aspect of firing people, your experience isn't representative.