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Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot

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TuringNYC · 1790353186 · focus · HN ↗
My blood pressure rises everytime i use Enterprise Copilot at work. It seems they truncate message history heavily (to save input token costs?) and Copilot forgets the last thing you told it in the chat. It is like a real-life version of Momento (<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/" rel="nofollow">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/) mixed with Waiting for Gadot (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot), pretending to be in league with Anthropic.
1. browningstreet · 1790359600 · focus · HN ↗
  Doing research work with it that outputs any kind of artifact is.. really painful. It constantly crashes, has to regenerate.. and then the output is often very difficult to carry to other Microsoft products, like Sharepoint. I end up creating PDFs that I import.
  I'll go ahead and burn working hours on it because I'm getting paid, and people like the things I create.. but it's a very crippled and painful version of what you get with the frontier products and most OSS options.
  1. homeonthemtn · 1790385675 · focus · HN ↗
    Oh it's so bad. So so bad.
    If you prompted an AI to return answers "as though you habitually ate soap and crayons while mouth breathing" you'd still get a better response than copilot
    epihelix · 1790405823 · focus · HN ↗
    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 also writes some of the nicest code I've ever seen from an LLM, that's almost entirely free of comments.
    rmaxdev · 1790408083 · focus · HN ↗
    My previous company used copilot enterprise
    My experience was great because I had premium license and only used thinking models
    Most colleagues didn’t have premium and used default/auto model
    People stick to their very first bad experience unfortunately

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