Microsoft's costs in focus as fears rise over slow payoff from AI

GitHub Copilot definitely a game changer in terms of productivity. Tend to still get lost in the weeds a little, but it's been fantastic since our team started using it.

So many varied things. It’s also much more useful on the phone so you can ask for things on the spot. Also 3.5 isn’t going to cut it, 4o is an order of magnitude better.

Just going through the recent history- proper use of plant sterols, identifying a weird bulb from a pic so I could order a replacement, a question (with a solution!) about lead outs in fusion 360, surface area calculation for an object from a picture, an estimate of all US professional athlete numbers, how to grow lilacs, questions related to radio wave propagation through different mediums, a thorough explanation of NEMA electrical outlets etc. This is just a selection of some over the last day or so.

I live in tmux and use shellgpt to hit it. I use it ~100x a day probably for stupid shit like the syntax to a command or what API/service/program is best for X or Y. It's replaced 95% of my search queries as by the time I dig into explicit details I can narrow down to exactly what I need in the official docs/etc without any digging.

Treat it like a better search engine to do first-pass digs in a quick tmux split and it's an incredible time saver.