At this point its a sunk cost fallacy
If you understand product design, economics, corporate finance and various other disciplines well - its obvious what is going on.
MSFT wants to juice their numbers for the next earnings call to keep the mania going. Zzzzzzzzzzz
Ive spoken to people who work in the finance sector - portfolio management and tax audit - they laugh hysterically at how bad the tools are (copilot in particular) and resent how much they are being pushed down on them.
And so the performance art must continue, at least until the AI investment music stops. Your options are get rich if in a position to (due to irrational exuberance and unsophisticated capital investment), or play along until the facade falls to keep your job. "It is what it is."
MSFT: Microsoft CEO Offloads $75 Million in Stock Amid AI Boom - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/msft-microsoft-ceo-offloads-7... - September 5th, 2025
I read a couple of articles and he seems to have been completely suckered in by the damn thing
from https://archive.is/oWbZB#selection-2387.572-2401.668
> Copilot consumes Nadella’s life outside the office as well. He likes podcasts, but instead of listening to them, he loads transcripts into the Copilot app on his iPhone so he can chat with the voice assistant about the content of an episode in the car on his commute to Redmond. At the office, he relies on Copilot to deliver summaries of messages he receives in Outlook and Teams and toggles among at least 10 custom agents from Copilot Studio. He views them as his AI chiefs of staff, delegating meeting prep, research and other tasks to the bots. “I’m an email typist,” Nadella jokes of his job, noting that Copilot is thankfully very good at triaging his messages.
this is no different to ending up in an alternate reality populated by your AI "girlfriends"
and will produce similar results
I do not see it as AI girlfriend. I see it as pushing the limits of the technology for productivity.
" Copilot is thankfully very good at triaging his messages"
But .. I would never do that, without also having a human check what important bits don't get through.
It makes me curious how much, if any, of the current LLM hype is simply coming from people who are dealing with the ELIZA effect.
[0] https://medium.com/where-thought-bends/the-7-trillion-delusi...
That part is no longer up for debate. The question is how useful and scalable this particular form of intelligence will turn out to be.
I wonder if those who resist copilot aren't driven by the nascent feeling they are training their replacement.
> ... to maintain historical financial performance targets during ZIRP that are simply no longer obtainable.
If all else fails, they can ZIRP back to fantasy land and avoid being the losers by shifting it to the public once again.