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#Copilot

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New uBlock Origin rule to clobber the intrusive "Copilot" button that recently appeared in Outlook web mail:

! Jul 25, 2025 https://outlook.office.com
outlook.office.com###CopilotCommandCenterButton

Note: there should be three (3) pound signs between ".com" and "CopilotCommandCenterButton". For some reason my fediverse server does not display all three.

#uBlock #AISpam #AI #GenerativeAI #Copilot #Microsoft #Outlook #DarkPattern

This post is not an invitation to criticize me for using a Microsoft product or to suggest an alternative.

Previously I said local single-line code completion is the acceptable level of "AI" assistance for me and that JetBrains one was somewhat useful, only wrong half of the time, and easy to ignore when it is.

I've changed my mind.

See, I code primarily in TypeScript and Rust. Both of these languages have tooling that's really good at static analysis. I mean, in case of TS, static analysis is the whole product. It's slow, it requires a bunch of manual effort, but holy hell does it make life easier in the long run. Yes, it does take a whole minute to "compile" code to literally same code but with some bits removed. But it detects so many stupid mistakes as it does so, every day, it's amazing. Anyway, not the point.

The other thing modern statically-typed languages have is editor integration. You know, the first letter in IDE. This means that, as you are typing your code and completions pop up, those completions are provided by the same code that makes sure your code is correct.

Which means they are never wrong. Not "rarely". Not "except in edge cases". Zero percent of the time wrong.

If I type a dot and start typing "thing" and see "doThing(A, B)", I know this is what I was looking for. I might ctrl-click it and read the docs to make sure, but I know "doThing" exists and it takes two arguments and i can put it in and maybe even run the code and see what it does. This is the coding assistance we actually need. Exact answers, where available.

So, since I've enabled LLM completion a few months ago, I've noticed a couple of things. One: it's mostly useful when I'm doing some really basic boilerplate stuff. But if I wrote it often enough, I could find ways to automate that specific thing. It feels like this is saving me time, but it's probably seconds on a day.

Two: I am not used to code completion being wrong. Like, I see a suggestion, I accept it mentally before I accept it in the dropdown. I'm committed to going there and thinking about next steps.

And then it turns red because "doThing" is not, in fact, a method that exists.

And I stop working and go write this post because I forgot what I was even doing in the first place already.

I'm turning that shit off.

#AI#LLM#VibeCoding

Microsoft has unveiled “Copilot Vision”, a successor to the controversial Recall feature, as part of its expanding suite of AI tools for Copilot+ PCs – and it's already drawing criticism for its privacy implications.

computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/w

www.computing.co.ukWindows 11’s 'Copilot Vision' watches your screen in real timeMicrosoft's latest AI-powered update for Windows 11 is raising eyebrows once again.
🎬 PROMPTSPOTTING
👇 The unofficial movie poster:

Choose Copilot.
Choose auto-complete you never asked for.
Choose Copilot buttons crammed into every ribbon.
Choose being kicked from app to chat and back again.
Choose four Copilots with the same name and none that fit the task.
Choose hidden paywalls.
Choose cloud lag.
Choose hallucinated “facts.”
Choose code that won’t compile.
Choose transcripts no one reads.
Choose privacy swapped for “productivity.”
Choose your carefully crafted prompt eaten away as Copilot stops responding.
Choose dashboards that have never been opened.
Choose AI glitter over real fixes.
Choose agents over apps.
Choose hearing “we should use AI for this” when no one in the room knows what the f*** that even means.
Choose watching a marketing demo with perfectly groomed prompts that never work in real life.
Choose rotting away at the office as Copilot thanks you for your service via Teams chat before disabling your user account.

Choose your future.
Choose #Copilot.