catmanjan

Most of those things are ops related, not software development

No we have a Microsoft graph connector which inserts externalitems into graph, copilot is able to surface these, probably via the same semantic search database

The capability was there for years, but it was expensive - something like $0.60 per 1000 items indexed, then sometimes after copilot was added it became free for up to 50 million items, and now it's free for unlimited items - you just can't beat that for price... https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365copilot...

Why is that disconcerting? There's simply too much software to be familiar with obscure features like this

There's a big difference between 15 and 18 though...

I'd love to work with Azure search but because copilot with external items has been made so cheap it's hard to justify...

The problem I see as someone who has implemented a bunch of AI solutions in a range of markets, the quality isn't good enough yet to even think about efficiency - even if the current AI is 100x more efficient it still wouldn't be worth paying for because it doesn't deliver reliable and trustable results...

I'm not well versed with the accountant terminology, whatever the word is to describe the operating cost, I am not convinced consumers will ever pay enough to cover those costs

It is true that none of the LLM providers are profitable though, so there is some number above free that they need to charge and I am not convinced that number is compelling

Imagine how many millions would drive a Ferrari if they gave them away for free

In this scenario Copilot is performing RAG, so the auditing occurs when Copilot returns hits from the vector search engine its connected to - it seems there was a bug where it would only audit when Copilot referenced the hits in its result.

The correct thing to do would be to have the vector search engine do the auditing (it probably already does, it just isn't exposed via Copilot) because it sounds like Copilot is deciding if/when to audit things that it does...

As someone else mentioned the file isnt actually accessed by copilot, rather copilot is reading the pre-indexed contents of the file in a search engine...

Really Microsoft should be auditing the search that copilot executes, its actually a bit misleading to be auditing the file as accessed when copilot has only read the indexed content of the file, I don't say I've visited a website when I've found a result of it in Google

I'm pretty sure what you're describing is the fact that Microsoft return Graph scopes by default when you request a token, I agree it is very annoying and only really documented if you read between the lines...

Even if we spent 1 million years on LLM it will not result in AGI, we are no closer to AGI with LLM technology than we were with toaster technology

How can anyone still believe the AGI scam

Yeah me too, better off buying something if it already exists

Maybe somehow this will be true in the future, but I am finding that as soon as you work on a novel or undocumented or non internet available problem it is just a hallucinating junior dev

Yes I'm sure people say that but that's because they don't think before they speak

You wouldn't expect the same from a doctor, lawyer, engineer, the problem is that everyday people aren't aware that there is a difference between software development and computer science...

Universities are research oriented, kubernetes is a practical skills which you'd expect to learn at a trade school no different to learning fluid dynamics vs plumbing

The auditors are using llms too!

Does software that produces files have an obligation to provide interoperability?

Lol you'd hate to see what blazor is doing then

That's because customers don't care about anything but price

If customers cared they'd swap to a competitor

Very interested to hear about a high quality UI as I have never encountered one

Yes so probably not a good idea to be loyal to craft, just be loyal to yourself

What about the loyal loom operators?

Companies never bear any costs, their customers do

Yes I believe Docker/AKS somewhat recently defaulted to least privelege for container users, so you end up having to explicitly grant access to every little thing...

You do realise you've just recrated those memories from stories or pictures?

Blazor is a great developer experience but when you put it side by side with the other technology solutions (react, angular, anything really) its so slow that you will quickly be told to use something else...