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Copilot as a sort of unobtrusive popup window on my PC, as long as it remains an isolated app without roots into the OS, used as a more precise search engine available with a keyboard shortcut while coding on Windows has been surprisingly useful for learning etc.

Anything more ingrained or trying to be too clever or invasive, not at all. Microsoft has a funny example here, as what I describe is the consumer Copilot app. The Microsoft 365 Copilot experience seems the worst extreme, muddling the product, injecting itself across domains for dubious benefit. The rating in the app store of both of these 2 apps reflects this divergence.

On mobile, I could see the potential as a substitute for search engines, with pros and cons for it's style of information retrieval. Beyond that it's stretching the use case of LLMS




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