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The closest facsimile I have in my work is occasionally running an Excel formula I've written through Copilot in order to find a formatting error or to help fix an Access query, but If fundamentally understand what I'm doing, can validate that the produced result is correct, and can fix it if I have to somewhere down the line.
It's good you've found some simple ways to use it, but in the vast majority of work I do, it would take longer if I used AI because everything produced using an LLM has to be human-validated regardless, so I might as well not skip the important step of learning and understanding it.
I never use it to ideate and never use it for anything that isn't eminently simple, like creating a sheet with x number of columns and rows or something like that. I hate the idea of the environmental impact and that helps me avoid it.
And outside coding its like modest productivity improvments is the best we’ve done in the 4 years we’ve had these models.
I just can’t see it not being a bubble
Yeah, it's nothing particularly special IMHO. The best feature I've found in using it is that, for Microsoft products in particular, it can tell me capabilities of certain things I didn't know previously when I present it with a problem.
Search engines used to do that before they got enshittified.