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No longer just a Copilot, Microsoft's AI wants to take the wheel (www.theregister.com)
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“It operates across cloud, desktop, and web, connecting to Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, and SharePoint, and to the data that powers your day, including chats, email, calendar, and contacts,” Omar Shahine, corporate VP of Microsoft Scout, wrote in the announcement

microslop is going completely nuts

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[–] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I question the security and the cost of agents.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What about the utility? I would predict for every useful action there are three annoyances or errors this sort of in your face agent will cause.

[–] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Well, from Microsoft sure. I have been pretty impressed with Hermes agent, though not the cost. Claude Code was also pretty good, I think a bit easier to control the API costs in my limited testing, and had more repeatable security gates than Hermes seemed to. Then again, I think Hermes could do more.