sit rep on day 1 of me getting a copilot licence
oh boy i got one of our trial copilot licenses! productivity to the moon , lets goooooo 🚀
his first test
every time i open a blank email copilot offers to write it for me! thanks buddy. i ask it to write an email to a colleague about how i am finding the copilot trial. it writes a long, gushing report about how much time me and my team have saved using copilot over the last few months. (i am the only one using it and i’ve had it for about an hour). it went into great detail about all the coding and admin tasks we use apparently it for.
then i asked copilot to change the email to talk about all the bad things that happened during the trial. now i’ve got a detailed report of all the issues we’ve faced, all the time we’ve wasted debugging bad code and fixing hallucinations and bad output. copilot strongly recommends that we do not implement copilot.
i am being mean, i know 😁
it can create power automate flows?!
i ask it to do something in outlook. it says it can’t, but it suggests creating a power automate flow to gather the data i need so copilot can review it. and it offers to create the flow for me?! hell yea
he makes me a zip file and gives me instructions on how to import it. it doesn’t work.
i go back with the error and copilot admits it just created a mock up, not a real flow. but he will do the work for sure this time.
the second import fails.
i open the JSON inside the ZIP and its just a plain text array that crudely describes what copilot wants power automate to do
🤣
i go back to copilot and tell it the file is sus. it admits it didn’t do the work, but offers to tell me how to do it myself.
lets try something simple
later on i book my flu jab. its at lunch time so i want to add it to both my personal and work calendars.
in my personal gmail i open the message and ask gemini to add it. it reads the date, time, location and other info and creates the appointment, no problem. ✅
in outlook i ask copilot to do the same.
“I've added the COVID-19 and flu vaccination appointment to your calendar with the following details:…”
thanks bro!
i look at my calendar, there is nothing there.
i ask it to check
it thanks me for my patience and admits it never added the appointment because it can’t work out how. but it can tell me how to do it myself.
in summary
2 of the 3 tasks i tried to use it for are things i never would have bothered with if i didn't have a copilot licence. which kind of aligns with the Department for Business and Trade Copilot Evaluation - lots of "saving" time on brand new tasks nobody did before AI, lol
i keep asking it what its capabilities are and it tells me it can do stuff, then it just… doesn’t?
the level of confidence this thing has is both hilarious and inspiring. 10/10 for entertainment.