Now since I suggest Microsoft tools to companies, I have to try out what MS offers. Today I attempted to use the Copilot Writing Coach and it was terrible.
I am still in the process of trying to get it to do something useful. For the last hour I have struggled with it just outputting a file. Finally I gave up and asked it to just paste and show me the content directly. This is only 21 pages of text, hardly anything major.
This process has taken an hour and its not finished. How is AI saving time, when using it costs more time? I could have written this faster than using Copilot Researcher and then Writing Coach to rewrite the awkward way that Copilot speaks.
Between the additions, deletions and generally inability for Copilot to do something the same way twice, I don’t blame anyone who is frustrated with Copilot tools. I have used them for weeks and months for 8 hours a day and I am telling you that they are frustrating even with machines with plenty of resources. I am using a machine with 128 GB of ram, when most people have 16/32 and Copilot still complains that it runs out of memory with very little text. To be clear, it is using the server memory not the local one, but no amount of local resources makes using Copilot faster or better unlike most local applications that you might use. In short, you are stuck with AI slow performance and you will like it.
I don’t like it. I don’t like feeling captive to a process that I can barely get to work on a consistent basis. Copilot is underbaked, and even though it is the best of the AI’s according to other peoples tests, it still leaves you feeling frustrated and questioning the purpose of AI.