• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Have all the code in the world

    Create LLM for software development

    Try to advertise it

    Oops, no budget

    Get acquired by Microsoft

    Enshittification ensues

    Everyone else loots your code repos

    Microsoft tries to put your coding tool in everything

    Coding tool injected into Excel

    Into Word

    Into Teams Chat

    Nobody knows what this is even supposed to do anymore

    Copilot now synonymous with Clippy

    Yeah, can’t even begin to imagine how this happened.

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      2 hours ago

      And the ONE useful feature (summarizing meeting transcripts) is behind a paywall corporate doesn’t want to touch.

      • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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        14 minutes ago

        “What do you mean this 4 hour meeting could be summed up in a single, 100 word paragraph without losing any important context or decision???” - higher ups seeing the summarized transcript, probably