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https://news.abnasia.org/blog/posts/en-microsoft-scales-back-ai-goals-because-almost-nobody-is-using-copilot-2732

This headline nailed it! Turns out, Microsoft just learned the hardest lesson in AI - distribution doesn’t beat usefulness 😳

Microsoft’s AI Copilot was supposed to be everywhere.

In Windows. In Office. In your workflow.

Turns out it’s mostly ignored.

Recent reports say Microsoft quietly cut internal Copilot sales targets by up to 50%.

Not because of vibes. Because of math.

→ Copilot ~14% market share → ChatGPT ~61% → Gemini sprinting into 2nd place

And this is with Microsoft’s insane advantage:

Windows + Office + Azure + OpenAI access 🤯

If that stack can’t force adoption, maybe the problem isn’t distribution. It’s value.

Enterprises tried Copilot. Piloted it. Demoed it. Bought licenses.

Then, employees opened ChatGPT in another tab.

Because most of today’s “AI agents” are confident interns with no context.

So when Microsoft says“70% of Fortune 500 have adopted Copilot”, what it really means is this:

Procurement bought it. Employees didn’t.

Most importantly, forcing AI into everything didn’t help.

People didn’t ask for:

→ AI in Paint → AI watching their documents → AI narrating PowerPoint like a hostage video

They asked for one thing: AI that actually saves time, or does something humans couldn’t do before.

Right now, Copilot does neither.

Some extra link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF4VccxdNEg

Test Confirms Copilot Can’t Do What Microsoft’s Ad Shows - https://propakistani.pk/2025/12/20/test-confirms-copilot-cant-do-what-microsofts-ad-shows/

AI search engines fail accuracy test, study finds 60% error rate - https://www.techspot.com/news/107101-new-study-finds-ai-search-tools-60-percent.html

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[–] sacredfire@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

Wasn’t there a recent METR study that found 20% decreased productivity with ai coding tools? Oddly enough, the people using the tools thought they were 20% faster.

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

From my own experience, they can be useful until they aren’t… and if you don’t know what you’re doing they can output convincing but flawed or downright dangerous code or suggestions. I’m not sure if it saves me time or not. Im not doing front end web development anymore so maybe the stuff I’m working on now is too obscure for the current tools?