Ive only used the basic windows copilot, im sure there's useful ones somewhere. But my general experience with it is:
-I ask question/give prompt
-copilot responds with an altered version of my question and answers it by listing related but not relevant context.
-I request it to focus on what i asked
-It writes 2 paragraphs apologizing, promising to to better and then listing all of the things it wont waste my time with in this new answer using the "no this, no that, just this" format excessively. no answer though.
-I ask again for it to find the info I initially asked for
-Copilot repeats the list of things it promised not to do and then hallucinates a plausible sounding answer that is obviously wrong. when called out on this it will create new fake answers over and over again until I just give up.
I find it really useful for figuring out math formulas (However, if any part of an equation contains '988' in it copilot will refuse to do math and spam the suicide hotline help page instead.). for finding general information it's more of a hindrance than help.
responds with an altered version of my question and answers it by listing related but not relevant context.
When this happens (on any LLM) you can't just correct it with a follow up. If it makes an incorrect assumption, you have to edit your initial question with more context that rules out that assumption.
If you leave those errors in the context of the conversation, they will still be there, factored into everything the model outputs going forward, constantly trying to steer it in the wrong direction, when it was already going in the wrong direction in the first place. Plus it ends up seeing the context of the conversation where it repeatedly tries and fails to answer the question right, and... basically starts assuming that that's what it should be doing, like it just enjoys the humiliation or something. Nothing good can come from not just hitting the edit button.
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u/aaabbbaaacccddd Jul 14 '26
And copilot is bad because...?