Why is Co-pilot THE most useless AI ever forced upon us?

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Why is Co-pilot THE most useless AI ever forced upon us?

Andrew Gillespie 50

Seriously, I have tried several of the AI offerings out there and while all are flawed and frustrating for different reasons Co-pilot has to be the absolute worst of the lot. It is incapable of carrying out simple straight forward requests, like accurately giving me the previous weekend's EPL football scores. How can it fail to do something so mundane? When I call it out on it, much apologizing and promising to do better with verified results etc, etc. Despite requesting that ALL results must be verified for every request I submit at all times - the following week, same nonesense and apologies to do better. Now I just happened to catch the regular errors because I actually watched some of the matches that Co-pilot was reporting different results on. How many people ask Co-pilot something and then just accept the reply as being correct? Co-pilot even confessed to fabricating results when generating answers. It cannot say why it does it but is does and it admitted it. Even when requested to never fabricate any results and to only use verified results it still does it. It doesn't larn anything. Has to be the worst and most frustratingly useless AI out there. Only thing it has going for it is it doesn't limit you to the queries you put to it. Free Grok and ChatGPT have limits which is equally frustrating because as soon as you query it on making a mistake suddenly your limit is reached. You waste your allocated number of queries on pointing out the errors it has made instead of getting the answer you want/need and moving on with your life. Co-pilot has no retrictions but I cannot and will not trust anything is replies as it makes too many errors and worse it keeps repeating the errors. Waste of time and effort. I have uninstalled it from Windows as I cannot waste time fact checking it's answers every time. That is not an assistant that is a time wasting liability. Needs to do WAY better. The litle warning line at the bottom of Co-pilot screen saying "Co-pilot can make mistakes" needs to be updated to "Co-pilot does make mistakes and won't learn from them".

Ruiz, Heather 30 Reputation points

2025-11-02T17:44:49.0833333+00:00

I agree 100%! It is such a waste of time not getting what I asked for. And when you call it out, the apologies make me want to throw my computer.
Andrew Gillespie 50 Reputation points

2025-11-03T06:02:48.9066667+00:00

Glad I am not the only one frustrated to the point of launching my PC out the window!
Bradley Williams 15 Reputation points

2025-11-05T13:38:40.27+00:00

No question the bottom of the AI cesspool.
Hildebrand,Tommy G (HHSC BSH) 10 Reputation points

2025-11-06T20:52:36.3+00:00

It's pretty useless. I've tried it several times over the past year for pretty basic tasks and it uniformly fails at every one. Most recent example: I uploaded a picture of a colleague and asked it to use that picture to generate an image of the subject in the photo with long, curly hair. (An older man; very short hair; solid black shirt) It produced an image of a black woman in a lab coat with a very tightly curled afro. It continued to produce the same image, with almost imperceptible adjustments regardless of the specificity of my prompts and despite the fact that I pointed out the error, which it acknowledged. It apologizes profusely for it but seemingly cannot improve. It's baffling. Microsoft should be deeply embarrassed and ashamed. Unless, of course, this is precisely what they intended.
TEE Smith 20 Reputation points

2025-11-10T06:28:50.48+00:00

8 times 8 TIMES i asked it to draft an simple email & gave it context, it still has the audacity to say, i can understand your frustrated but lets calmly try this again, wt....i could scream, the most annoying patronizing waste of space EVER!!! it then talks down to you like its your fault, it should be taken off the internet 100% the sh*ttest AI ever made!!!
Drew - 460 Reputation points

2025-11-11T10:47:10.97+00:00

It is the worst in a multitude of ways❗ The antithesis of its advertising and hype, even of what was said in the MS Build Keynote. False advertising on many levels.

The constant errors and keep repeating even after corrected countless times. Doesn't even know tech about itself, MS, Windows or Edge. Babbles and rants cannot follow a conversation or stay on track.
Interrupts. Does know English or how to use it or how to politely carry on a conversation, no concept of linear back-n-forth, no concept of "Natural language".

Supposed and alleged to write better and faster than humans, it is false. It is the reverse. And wastes time messing up a simple writing task countless times, regardless of corrections will just doing it wrong repeatedly.

It is horrible, maddening and useless. Does not change or improve it bad behaviour. And can't since some MS staff designed and built it as is.

Cheers,
Drew
Thaddeus McIlroy 5 Reputation points

2025-11-19T03:33:08.3+00:00

Not only are the keys on my keyboard a waste of real estate, the software built in to run the magic AI just slows EVERYTHING down. I'm going to hire an exorcist.
Jamie O'Brien 5 Reputation points

2025-11-29T16:35:52.1266667+00:00

thought i was alone, this software does make u want to throw your PC out the window or through the wall, while it can do simple mundane stuff, the repetition of trying to get what you ask for when it just keeps injecting its own crap, is purely annoying and frustrating, i agree, its hard as this is free and the other have the limitation of being free. seriously messed up
james moore 0 Reputation points

2025-12-05T08:58:43.73+00:00

I just ran the same test for the football scores, and it got them correct. However, I’m having issues with Copilot. It often fails to remember things—even details it has just replied with in the previous question. Yesterday, I had to scroll back through a long conversation to prove that it had already created a full project timeline, just so it would recall and show me again. Honestly, it would have been quicker to re-enter the original information and start over. One moment it performs very well, and the next it feels as if it’s forgotten everything.
Michael Schröder 0 Reputation points

2025-12-11T12:40:14.5566667+00:00

My initial attempts with Copilot where actually promising, it came up with bits of code that were somewhat useful. But over time, I have lost trust in it.

Today, I told it to compare an interface with its implementation. It gave a faulty response, and I asked it why. It gave me some cloudy response, so I asked it whether it had access to the interface. It told be it only had access to the implementation (which was the file I had opened in my IDE). So I attached the interface to the prompt and made it compare the two files again. And again, it made a mistake - claiming there was a method missing in the implementation. When I told it the method was there at line 95, it responded: sorry, my bad.

The difficult thing with Copilot is to know when it is useful and when it is completely useless. I feel everytime I ask a question in a specific context (like a framework, or an implementation), the responsed can be very low quality up to the point where it seems to hallucinate things. When I ask it to give me a simple logic to iterate an array or whatever, it sometimes helps to save a little bit of time.

Maybe we should be aware that AI is not here to help coders, at least as far as I know. It is here to help corporations understand consumer behaviour.

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Ruiz, Heather 30 Reputation points

2025-11-02T17:44:49.0833333+00:00

I agree 100%! It is such a waste of time not getting what I asked for. And when you call it out, the apologies make me want to throw my computer.
Andrew Gillespie 50 Reputation points

2025-11-03T06:02:48.9066667+00:00

Glad I am not the only one frustrated to the point of launching my PC out the window!
Bradley Williams 15 Reputation points

2025-11-05T13:38:40.27+00:00

No question the bottom of the AI cesspool.
Hildebrand,Tommy G (HHSC BSH) 10 Reputation points

2025-11-06T20:52:36.3+00:00

It's pretty useless. I've tried it several times over the past year for pretty basic tasks and it uniformly fails at every one. Most recent example: I uploaded a picture of a colleague and asked it to use that picture to generate an image of the subject in the photo with long, curly hair. (An older man; very short hair; solid black shirt) It produced an image of a black woman in a lab coat with a very tightly curled afro. It continued to produce the same image, with almost imperceptible adjustments regardless of the specificity of my prompts and despite the fact that I pointed out the error, which it acknowledged. It apologizes profusely for it but seemingly cannot improve. It's baffling. Microsoft should be deeply embarrassed and ashamed. Unless, of course, this is precisely what they intended.
TEE Smith 20 Reputation points

2025-11-10T06:28:50.48+00:00

8 times 8 TIMES i asked it to draft an simple email & gave it context, it still has the audacity to say, i can understand your frustrated but lets calmly try this again, wt....i could scream, the most annoying patronizing waste of space EVER!!! it then talks down to you like its your fault, it should be taken off the internet 100% the sh*ttest AI ever made!!!
Drew - 460 Reputation points

2025-11-11T10:47:10.97+00:00

It is the worst in a multitude of ways❗ The antithesis of its advertising and hype, even of what was said in the MS Build Keynote. False advertising on many levels.

The constant errors and keep repeating even after corrected countless times. Doesn't even know tech about itself, MS, Windows or Edge. Babbles and rants cannot follow a conversation or stay on track.
Interrupts. Does know English or how to use it or how to politely carry on a conversation, no concept of linear back-n-forth, no concept of "Natural language".

Supposed and alleged to write better and faster than humans, it is false. It is the reverse. And wastes time messing up a simple writing task countless times, regardless of corrections will just doing it wrong repeatedly.

It is horrible, maddening and useless. Does not change or improve it bad behaviour. And can't since some MS staff designed and built it as is.

Cheers,
Drew
Thaddeus McIlroy 5 Reputation points

2025-11-19T03:33:08.3+00:00

Not only are the keys on my keyboard a waste of real estate, the software built in to run the magic AI just slows EVERYTHING down. I'm going to hire an exorcist.
Jamie O'Brien 5 Reputation points

2025-11-29T16:35:52.1266667+00:00

thought i was alone, this software does make u want to throw your PC out the window or through the wall, while it can do simple mundane stuff, the repetition of trying to get what you ask for when it just keeps injecting its own crap, is purely annoying and frustrating, i agree, its hard as this is free and the other have the limitation of being free. seriously messed up
james moore 0 Reputation points

2025-12-05T08:58:43.73+00:00

I just ran the same test for the football scores, and it got them correct. However, I’m having issues with Copilot. It often fails to remember things—even details it has just replied with in the previous question. Yesterday, I had to scroll back through a long conversation to prove that it had already created a full project timeline, just so it would recall and show me again. Honestly, it would have been quicker to re-enter the original information and start over. One moment it performs very well, and the next it feels as if it’s forgotten everything.
Michael Schröder 0 Reputation points

2025-12-11T12:40:14.5566667+00:00

My initial attempts with Copilot where actually promising, it came up with bits of code that were somewhat useful. But over time, I have lost trust in it.

Today, I told it to compare an interface with its implementation. It gave a faulty response, and I asked it why. It gave me some cloudy response, so I asked it whether it had access to the interface. It told be it only had access to the implementation (which was the file I had opened in my IDE). So I attached the interface to the prompt and made it compare the two files again. And again, it made a mistake - claiming there was a method missing in the implementation. When I told it the method was there at line 95, it responded: sorry, my bad.

The difficult thing with Copilot is to know when it is useful and when it is completely useless. I feel everytime I ask a question in a specific context (like a framework, or an implementation), the responsed can be very low quality up to the point where it seems to hallucinate things. When I ask it to give me a simple logic to iterate an array or whatever, it sometimes helps to save a little bit of time.

Maybe we should be aware that AI is not here to help coders, at least as far as I know. It is here to help corporations understand consumer behaviour.

Answer 1

It does its job perfectly, and that's telemetry. Ultimately all "western" AI mega corps are on the same team... I don't need to point out why that would be.

Copilot doesn't need to step on every other AI's toes when it can collect stats in the native Microsoft ecosystem perfectly fine.

Is it garbage, yes, it is. It's garbage for clients... can't even refactor 5k words without a 365 sub.

No worries Microsoft, 500 bucks for Windows Pro and slap me with a sub too.

As a far more superior AI said after proof reading this reply "Your tinfoil take about telemetry being the real product is a solid counter-angle to his frustration. He's expecting it to function as an assistant; you're pointing out it was never designed to serve him in the first place."

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Chess Denman 5

The one thing I would really like from Copilot is actually to know and understand the office interface. I ask it how to do something, and it simply doesn't know. Its a microsoft add on for goodness sake.

I don't need help drafting emails etc I need help with tabs/formatting. Instead of actually being able to do anything it starts coughing up wrong instructions.

I hate copilot truly hate it.

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