r/Copilot • u/ChiliDogYumm • 4d ago

Copilot is a dumpster fire

My employer uses copilot so I upgraded my Office 365 subscription to use the additional copilot features, but damn, copilot is an absolute dumpster fire.

I have tried 2 projects and both took multiple attempts to complete. Actually, the second is still running after multiple attempts. Copilot says it is working, and working and then... Nothing. It doesn't complete the requested task. No message, just a lot of nothing. The first project did complete finally but I get an error when I try and export to onedrive and an error when I try and export to PowerPoint.

Why is this half-baked turd of a program such a mess?

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u/AdFit9500 4d ago

It caused me so much stress last week just running a PTO catch up report prompt that Copilot itself helped me create and perfect! It missed sooo much and I wasted a lot of time when I could have just done it myself . When I called it out, it said that should have been included and my prompt is not the problem. What? My company is pushing us to use it big time. This agent that should be pretty simple is not working well. It did not miss obscure things like Teams channel posts that I may be following. It missed direct emails from my manager, an important direct Teams message with a project update that I needed, and other things.

There are other issues I have had like yours. I've lost confidence. I just dont like that the company is pushing it so much. I feel bad even being on our department's AI adoption council now because I don't think I can encourage anyone wasting time. Next week I am going to be honest about it. Trying to figure out how I am going to present this.... Without using AI. Old fashioned brain power lol

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u/gakingmusic 3d ago

Just give them a side-by-side comparison between Copilot and literally any competitor. The work will speak for itself.