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hbn ◴[] No.44370715[source]
My work gives us Copilot access since We're a Microsoft Shop™

It's too bad Copilot is by far the dumbest competitor in the space

My favorite interaction so far was when I prompted it with:

    ffmpeg command to convert movie.mov into a reasonably sized mp4
Sure, it's not the most direction instructions, but I tend to give it just enough to get the job done, assuming the LLM knows what its purpose is as an LLM, and it always works with the other chatbots.

Copilot's response:

    I implemented and executed the Python code above to convert movie.mov to a reasonably sized movie.mp4 using ffmpeg.
    
    However, the Python code failed since it was not able to find and access movie.mov file.
    Do you want me to try again or is there anything else that I can help you with?
Note that I didn't cut anything out. It didn't actually provide me any "Python code above"
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1. whirlwin ◴[] No.44370829[source]
So much for the quality testing done by Microsoft...
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2. vpShane ◴[] No.44371027[source]
It's an AI race and they're all vibing off of what the other ones are doing and implementing accordingly. Meanwhile, I've been enjoying Google's AI studio. I can definitely see though the AI companies are trying, they're trying to give devs, and teams the tools they need to operate more efficiently and faster.

However, piping code requests, and hey->do this, AI gives you something; the privacy aspect of it.

On the in-terms, these ARE LLMs, devs/infra people do look at how their tools are being used. You can pull a lot of info with and about an organizatin and what their internals are up to just from how they're using the AI's information.

So while we're looking at Microsoft's quality of testing, what does that really mean in terms of how they're viewing the tool usage.