I have been fighting the good fight today. Against Copilot.
I can’t even start with all the crazy things that I have to share. This is going to be a series of articles. Crazy.
Why am I talking about chunking? In working with Copilot it complained about my large data sets. Yeah you read that right, large data sets!
It said in fact, too much information I need to chunk it or approach it in a different way. So I said sure, chunk it buddy. And it tried, and it failed.
It suggested that what I was doing needed to be broken down into 230 chunks. I uploaded about 10 MB of data. It showed me the first 3 and I said go chunk away and when it did the first 3 then it forgot and lost the other 227. I said hey buddy wheres the rest of my chunks and it said oh i forgot to let you download it and now its gone. You have to reupload the separate 63 files that you were doing.
Ok then. All day I have been playing games with Copilot. I asked it if i could upload 63 pieces of data and then it could do some things to it and it said sure. When I uploaded the first ten it said great. Then I uploaded another ten and it said great. Then I grew suspicious. Copilot looks like its working when its not. Ghost working is what they are calling it with people. I’d say Copilot and AI is the real ghost worker here. I asked how many files did I upload? It said 10. I uploaded 20. I then got cross with it and said remember this after each upload verify it was uploaded for each file. Then I tried this again. It verified that it was uploaded. Then I asked it how many I had upload and it said 40. I was thinking, good it remembered to verify and tell me the total. Progress! Then I asked it to do what it said it could do and it only analyzed 3 of the uploaded documents, the last three ones. When I asked it where the other documents were it acted as though they didn’t exist.
Ok. I did this process again and it verified that I uploaded all of my files then I asked it to compare. As usual it had excuses why it couldn’t compare. Now I have been working with Copilot straight for 2 days 8 hours a day and I have learned its tricks. It has its own language, and you have to figure it out. Intuitive? Only if you are a programmer by day, and data scientist by night. I have massaged these files more than KFC massages the secret herbs and spices into the product and I still didn’t have anything useful? My fault, sure if I can’t do it in 16 hours blame the user.
I’m not done with Copilot and it will rue the day that it tries to play games with me.