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Not seeing this yet but our place is still trying to figure things out. We have strong KPIs on how much we use copilot so I must say woof woof to it every day or so to make sure it shows me as an active user (luckily it only shows the latest date someone has used it in each application).

For programming I find it pretty useful. For MS Office it's so far not a hell of a lot more useful than clippy. The one thing it's good at is finding old stuff in SharePoint and Outlook but that's more a sign of how terrible the search functions are in those than of how good copilot is.

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A friend of a friend has too - they just ask the AI some random questions in the morning to hit their KPIs because AI doesn't make for a good accountant.

That’s far from the truth. LLMs are excellent accountants, especially for net zero balance stuff which is how most companies run.

Maybe - I think my friend's friend is more in the giving nuanced advice space of accounting rather than anything too mathematical.

I know accountants, most of the stuff they deal with is getting stuff to make sense when your dealing with an unreliable narrator dealing with push back from their employers and then attempting to synthesize a coherent narrative over a large corpus of heterogeneous internal documents, controls, spreadsheets and legal agreements. LLM’s as they exist now are yes men, they are not good at making coherent fact patterns, especially when someone pushes back on them or gives them a red herring or mis-represents something. There’s a long list of things that need to improve for them to gain traction in that industry.

I literally say woof woof hehe. I have to be careful sharing my screen because the sidebar (conversation history) is full of "morning puppy greetings!!" and stuff.

I can see the reports being generated myself (I work in that part) so I know what I'm doing looks good enough.

But it would be funny if I really had to give it busywork. I'd probably build a local agent (like with foundry or something) to talk to copilot keeping it busy. I like the paradox of that.

>We have strong KPIs on how much we use copilot so I must say woof woof to it every day or so to make sure it shows me as an active user (luckily it only shows the latest date someone has used it in each application).

Ask it to generate a cron job for this.

that would just create more evidence of him not using it regularly. not good

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