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by chairmansteve 27 days ago
If AI is so great, these price rises will pay for themselves many times over.....

Have any HNer's experienced or observed any productivity increases, or even any utility increases from co pilot?

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Had a clueless business analyst get Copilot to write a bunch of stories for an epic, then when she had a meeting with me (and three other people!) to go through the stories I had to tell them that 90% of what they had done was wrong.

If they'd come to me from the outset I could have told them the one story title and handful of acceptance criteria that was required but instead we wasted 5 person hours and whatever Copilot costs.

Without context it reads like you work in a publisher that publishes fiction...
I thought the same. Business lingo has really jumped the shark. "story" is already stupid enough, but "epic"? Seriously? :-D
I assumed this was standard terminology for Jira? It's been the same for me at two completely different tech companies.
It might be standard terminology but to outsiders like me it sounds like an over-the-top parody of corporate speak.
I always hoped we could make "cinematic universe" for really enormous refactorings.
I don't disagree - I worked on a task management system many years ago and task and subtask always made a lot more sense than story and task. And epic should just be project.
Probably worse productivity because now I have to read paragraphs of emails that could have been sentences.
It’s pure gold for contractors trying to snow clients. The people who used to struggle to produce a good looking document can now quickly produce something without visible tells that they have no idea what they’re talking about, even though they still have no idea.
Copilot actually can search outlook emails on Mac. This is the greatest achievement of any AI.
Sarcasm? The new Mac outlook also stores each email as a separate plain text tarball of HTML. It’s the greatest unintentional Microsoft feature ever because you can finally read all your email however you please
Splotlight search might work, but until copilot, trying to search your own email in New Outlook wouldn't find emails literally right in front of your nose, on the screen.
We've lost customers over the increased price.
They do increase RAM and processor usage.