the trash keeps piling up and rotting, promising younger colleagues end up leaving for greener pastures, and i'm stuck here pulling levers to help maintain the illusion that this bloated corpse of a company is still worth a damn.

i'm really just... totally done with work. everyone is carrying loads of technical debt on their backs just to keep things running, and the only thing executive leadership is doing is making manic demands and changing direction every few weeks because a cult is telling them they need to create a God in the Machine or die trying.

So now "Copilot" in the context of Microsoft can mean:

• Copilot on Windows (the one in Windows 11)
• Microsoft Copilot (the standalone one on the web/mobile)
• Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat (the one inside Office and Teams)
• GitHub Copilot
• Microsoft Office 365 (Office itself)

Not confusing at all.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/the-microsoft-365-app-transition-to-the-microsoft-365-copilot-app-22eac811-08d6-4df3-92dd-77f193e354a5

apparently the metrics used to evaluate llm-based systems don't come from anything grounded in reality. they just pass the prompt and response pairs to an llm and ask it to evaluate them. usually the llm doing the evaluation is the same one being evaluated.

so much of this feels entirely unscientific. engineers are treating llms as these magical infallible black boxes without understanding their specific strengths and limitations. it's the ultimate hammer and now literally every problem looks like a nail.

it's also very comical that the examples they are using in the lab produce incredibly generic and horribly useless responses but the llm is scoring them very high in all metrics.

"ai is the new electricity"
f right off

aaaaaaaaaaaaaa the expert one is over 7 hours

yay more mandatory training on AI... /s