I don’t want it on

this was also my thought. I don’t care what it’s designed to do - I want a goddamn off button for my car lol

how else are you going to perform, document, and communicate engineering calculations in a format that is simple, intuitive, flexible, and easy to iterate upon?

“AI” meeting transcription is pretty handy

oh honey, it’s going to be tax dollars

yep, it’s absolutely infuriating that they do that shit. you do some work around to make shit actually function, and then they just go change it on you without actually adding the functionality you needed

stop funding their bullshit

paywall

I still have a some sway at work regarding tech stuff, and I know roughly half of my team feels at least half a strongly as I do about how shitty Microsoft is. there are a couple programs for which we need to use Windows, but I could see us at least exploring how to not use windows anymore. It’s just too difficult to do our goddamn jobs

because we have a spreadsheet for group trips and I’m checking off the items I bought

why would I want to do that on a separate list and then transfer that information to the spreadsheet afterwards, when I could just do it directly?

not very convenient to use in a grocery store, though

thanks for the detailed reply. the proof is in the end product - as long as it is used with an appropriate understanding of its output, anything can be useful.

obviously I can’t say for sure how many AI emails I have gotten, but I can say that I’ve gotten some that are obviously AI where I skip over it because of that. it’s just excessively wordy and if somebody couldn’t have been bothered to be concise, I can’t be bothered to read it - I very much ascribe to the belief that somebody should not have to put in extra effort because the person requesting something didn’t. but if you have it working for you, then great. I do think that that is a good use case if it is dialed in — if it’s got the right style and verbosity, it’s much easier to just review something and tweak it than it is to write it all out from scratch.

I have found it helpful as a search engine when I don’t know the exact terms that I need to be searching for, but that’s about it. It’s just the initial search, and then once I know where I’m going I can use regular means to get the rest, because it really breaks down once you start asking it very specific stuff in my experience (engineering stuff). but again, I haven’t really needed to use it too many times.

One other time that I did find it helpful was when I didn’t know a particular API function call, and I just could not figure it out from the documentation or what I knew of the API. it got me the function I needed (although did not at all understand how to actually use it lol, but that was fine because I just needed to get there and then use the documentation for the rest).

I have a demo for an AI tool soon that is supposed to automatically create engineered parts drawings. I am very skeptical, but we’ll see how it goes. my expectation at this time is that it will only be good for very basic parts, not even moderate complexity, which means it’s functionally useless for me. if it’s turning out drawings at the quality level of a junior designer, that doesn’t help me — I need those juniors to turn those out so they can improve and do the same on the moderate complexity stuff. if they don’t have the opportunity on the simple stuff, then they won’t improve to handle the more difficult stuff that the tool cannot. and those simple drawings can be churned out in a minute each, often, so the time savings are just not there on that type of part.

omfg yes please I would actually buy a brand new phone again for that

I fucking hate entirely touchscreen stuff. using a sheets app on a touchscreen phone takes 10x as long as it should

apple keyboards have never made sense to me

yes, I am an android user. I’ve had an iPad for years. I hate the keyboard.

well stop shoving it in my face everywhere and I wouldn’t be bothered enough to comment on it

what mundane tasks do you find it useful for?

so far the only useful thing I’ve found (outside of being another search engine) is processing image to text, but I’m pretty sure it’s just using existing OCR tools to do that (not sure, I haven’t used it much because I only needed to do it once like a year ago)

The thing that pisses me off with the auto sync option is that it’s just not how a lot of files that we have are used

I don’t want to see a file with 10 different versions in the past week all because somebody opened it and didn’t modify it and closed it. I want to open a file, find out what I need to, and close it while knowing that I did not make any changes to that file.

sure, this problem could be avoided somewhat by managing user permissions, but oh guess what that’s a fucking pain in the ass the way Microsoft has that set up too

I’ve had something similar. It’s absolutely infuriating and shows the complete lack of respect they have for the users.

I still prefer them hijacking a particular drive letter to Microsoft’s approach of not even using a drive at all

Yes thank you so much Microsoft for making every single employee’s file path different when we’re trying to send each other the location of files, all of them within unnecessary multiple levels at the start (inevitably resulting in file path too long issues) because the default installation is c users user documents OneDrive

this is actually one way that I see which of my new hires actually read the fucking onboarding document and followed the instructions. One of the first steps is “unlink your OneDrive account and set up a OneDrive folder in the root of one of your drives instead” (with actual instructions on how to do that). two out of three new hires without fail will send me a link in their first week that points to c users. It’s a nice litmus test for who is going to be useless and/or a pita

everybody, back when I bought it.