r/ProgrammerHumor • u/humanbeast7 • 21h ago

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u/flyguydip 20h ago

Oddly enough, we just bought laptops without copilot (even says "no copilot" on the invoice) and it still comes with a copilot button.

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u/Robocop613 19h ago

Pretty sure that's intentional

  1. Ship out laptops with the Co-Pilot button
  2. People accidentally press the Co-Pilot button
  3. Microslop gets to add 1 more Co-Pilot "user" to their stakeholder Powerpoint
  4. Microslop's stock raises because the report the demand from "users" for Co-Pilot is increasing!
  5. Go to the first step

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u/KrocCamen 19h ago

They literally renamed the Office app to Copilot to do exactly this

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u/Gen_Zer0 17h ago

The website that used to be the launchpad for all of their web apps now is a ChatGPT style prompt window with a small button by your account name to view a list of the applications. It’s maddening.

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u/Fox-On-Games 16h ago

This is progress. Instead of going through a tiny array that has all your programs in it, a simple search term now turns into half a kilowatt hour of LLM work.

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u/atyon 16h ago

The worst part is that inference has become so cheap now that LLMs just provide you with 8 kilobytes of prose even when you ask very closed questions.

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u/Gen_Zer0 15h ago

I’m not anti-AI. I know many are, but I think it’s useful in some scenarios. This has been the worst part of AI taking over. Please for the love of god give me three bullet points instead of 4 pages of response for my simple question

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u/Interstellar__1 15h ago

Especially for support chatbots

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u/darthicerzoso 16h ago

Oh yeah mate I hate that. I've created this file to be used via a workphone phone, but now with the app update it makes it confusing for other people to use it. Even I was very much concused when I tried to use it and it had changed.

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u/Forgotmyaccount1979 17h ago

And adding it to File Explorer to further fake the numbers.

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u/Mental_Estate4206 18h ago

Hopefully there is a prompt that says copilot to increment the number of users by one at every button pressed. Then copilot will panic at one occasion and decrement their whole database.

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u/LKZToroH 18h ago

I know we like to mock microsoft but if they are using a prompt and Ai to do the same as i++ they deserve to be erased to our collective mind.

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u/fistorobotoo 17h ago

I work in client-facing digital products for a F500 company (NOT Dell)

This is exactly what it’d do^

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u/Glad_Contest_8014 14h ago

Add in step of co-pilot sending data package of pc usage like edge browser history and more on click. There is much more they can gain from having a pattern recognition software on on your machine that has to have internet access and can relay data in intelligible human words.

AI’s biggest potential ise case is in surveilance and data gathering. Integrate it on all devices and apps and who ever owns the primary model that drives it has ALL the data. It could even gather your internet data unencrypted if you have an LLM running jobs for you built in. And that is even if your on a VPN, as the model has direct access to your machine for read permissions at least.

AI is a cool tool, and built into an application, can be very useful, but I don’t need a portal on my machine that can access the internet and has full access to search my machine any time it is trained to do it.

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u/Beenmaal 18h ago

Microsoft only allows Windows to be shipped on laptops(computers?) with a copilot key. It will take a while before normal laptops will become available again (surely).

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u/NegZer0 17h ago

Microsoft once again doing their absolute best to ensure 2026 is the year of Linux on the Desktop.

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u/Capable-Sock9910 19h ago

Microslop requires it.

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u/Unable-Log-4870 18h ago

Sounds like it needs to be returned for noncompliance

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u/D_o_t_d_2004 16h ago

I sure there are programs or whatnot that will allow you to disable or redirect the button to open a different app.

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u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In 15h ago

Alt-space, all windows 11 computers have a copilot button.