Great examples of set it and forget it types of tasks for GitHub Copilot’s agent mode and similar long running agents.
Also love the attention to detail, as always, on avoiding loading the internet with more AI slop, unlike a lot of others.
Also love the attention to detail, as always, on avoiding loading the internet with more AI slop, unlike a lot of others.
I've been getting a lot of value using coding agents for code research tasks recently - I have a dedicated simonw/research GitHub repo and I frequently have them run detailed experiments and write up the results. Here's how I'm doing that + some examples:
simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/6/a...
simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/6/a...
Code research projects with async coding agents like Claude Code and Codex
I’ve been experimenting with a pattern for LLM usage recently that’s working out really well: asynchronous code research tasks. Pick a research question, spin up an asynchronous coding agent and …
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November 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Great examples of set it and forget it types of tasks for GitHub Copilot’s agent mode and similar long running agents.
Also love the attention to detail, as always, on avoiding loading the internet with more AI slop, unlike a lot of others.
Also love the attention to detail, as always, on avoiding loading the internet with more AI slop, unlike a lot of others.
"Once you've been aloft, you'll want to buckle up up behind your own IBM PC with the Microsoft Flight Simulator. It's the closest you can get to flying. Without leaving your nest." (Source.)
November 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"Once you've been aloft, you'll want to buckle up up behind your own IBM PC with the Microsoft Flight Simulator. It's the closest you can get to flying. Without leaving your nest." (Source.)
Jesus, I just noticed this detail: THEY LET/HAD HIM PUT ON COPILOT’S JACKET.
November 2, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Jesus, I just noticed this detail: THEY LET/HAD HIM PUT ON COPILOT’S JACKET.
Empowering Clinicians with Microsoft 365 Copilot’s Researcher Agent: Less Admin, More Patient Care #machinelearning #ai
Empowering Clinicians with Microsoft 365 Copilot’s Researcher Agent: Less Admin, More Patient Care
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October 31, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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It's likely Copilot's idea.
October 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
It's likely Copilot's idea.
Adding a friendly, Pixar-like face to Copilot’s voice mode may make it much easier to be sucked into feeling like Copilot isn’t just a neural network but a real, caring personality.
Microsoft’s Mico heightens the risks of parasocial LLM relationships
“It looks like you’re trying to find a friend. Would you like help?”…
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October 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Adding a friendly, Pixar-like face to Copilot’s voice mode may make it much easier to be sucked into feeling like Copilot isn’t just a neural network but a real, caring personality.
Clippy is back as an Easter egg in Copilot’s new Mico character. If you tap on Mico multiple times then Clippy appears
October 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Clippy is back as an Easter egg in Copilot’s new Mico character. If you tap on Mico multiple times then Clippy appears
Thought I'd already excised most of the copilot stuff (bar the annoying buttons that attempt to open the web version from edge), but after hitting Win+G it immediately attempted to launch gaming copilot's privacy dialog to turn on.
⇩⇩⇩⇩⇩recommend setting a restore point and doing this ⇩⇩⇩⇩⇩
⇩⇩⇩⇩⇩recommend setting a restore point and doing this ⇩⇩⇩⇩⇩
addendum: based on the advice of the linked reddit thread I think I was able to simply remove the entire gaming bar by opening a Powershell and entering:
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay | Remove-AppxPackage
www.reddit.com/r/microsoft/...
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay | Remove-AppxPackage
www.reddit.com/r/microsoft/...
October 24, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Thought I'd already excised most of the copilot stuff (bar the annoying buttons that attempt to open the web version from edge), but after hitting Win+G it immediately attempted to launch gaming copilot's privacy dialog to turn on.
⇩⇩⇩⇩⇩recommend setting a restore point and doing this ⇩⇩⇩⇩⇩
⇩⇩⇩⇩⇩recommend setting a restore point and doing this ⇩⇩⇩⇩⇩
I see Copilot’s role in programming as akin to when Microsoft introduced Frontpage for building HTML websites back in the 90s; great for quickly generating a small website with bloated impenetrable code that you had to discard due to the infeasibility of making any changes or improvements to it
October 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I see Copilot’s role in programming as akin to when Microsoft introduced Frontpage for building HTML websites back in the 90s; great for quickly generating a small website with bloated impenetrable code that you had to discard due to the infeasibility of making any changes or improvements to it
Copilot Fall Update Brings Mico Avatar, Memory, And Collaboration Tools Redefining AI Interaction: Copilot’s Most Personal Release Yet As autumn 2025 unfolds, Microsoft’s Copilot receives.... @cosmicmeta.ai #AI更新
https://u2m.io/G8B8Oqq7
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Copilot Fall Update Brings Mico Avatar, Memory, And Collaboration Tools
Discover the Copilot Fall Update featuring the new Mico avatar, personalized memory, and advanced collaboration tools. Learn how these enhancements bring AI closer to you and your workflow.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Copilot Fall Update Brings Mico Avatar, Memory, And Collaboration Tools Redefining AI Interaction: Copilot’s Most Personal Release Yet As autumn 2025 unfolds, Microsoft’s Copilot receives.... @cosmicmeta.ai #AI更新
https://u2m.io/G8B8Oqq7
https://u2m.io/G8B8Oqq7
Burn it! Burn the cursed sprite to the fucking ground while we still have the chance.
October 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Burn it! Burn the cursed sprite to the fucking ground while we still have the chance.
Copilot’s responsibility
October 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Copilot’s responsibility
Yesterday a coworker told me they “fed the data through an analysis to get something to start with” and I was like. Ohhh. These are *Copilot’s* insane ideas, not yours. Thank God.
"Research has shown that, inside some companies, workers begin to see their colleagues who use generative AI as less creative, even less trustworthy."
Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
October 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Yesterday a coworker told me they “fed the data through an analysis to get something to start with” and I was like. Ohhh. These are *Copilot’s* insane ideas, not yours. Thank God.
At this point I think we can safely say that Github exists to feed your code into Copilot's gaping maw.
October 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
At this point I think we can safely say that Github exists to feed your code into Copilot's gaping maw.
And no, Copilot's code didnt work because it was generic bullshit that did not take into account the libraries, APIs, and hundreds of thousands of lines of code. The Copilot code creates a button that does nothing and doesnt fit anywhere
October 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
And no, Copilot's code didnt work because it was generic bullshit that did not take into account the libraries, APIs, and hundreds of thousands of lines of code. The Copilot code creates a button that does nothing and doesnt fit anywhere
what Microsoft is doing with Windows 11 looks... interesting, but I can't see it working out in public spaces because no one is just going to start speaking to their laptops lmao
October 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
what Microsoft is doing with Windows 11 looks... interesting, but I can't see it working out in public spaces because no one is just going to start speaking to their laptops lmao
Even moreso when there's bugs that aren't getting fixed, which definitely weren't there a year ago, probably _because_ of fucking copilot's mandated use.
It can't die fast enough.
It can't die fast enough.
October 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Even moreso when there's bugs that aren't getting fixed, which definitely weren't there a year ago, probably _because_ of fucking copilot's mandated use.
It can't die fast enough.
It can't die fast enough.
Depends on the type of question, obviously, but I'd say those are generous odds for most of 'em compared with an AI.
I'm trying to get Copilot's circuits to adjust to an 'insufficient data available' response rather than having a preference for 'calculating the most desired response, here's a...
I'm trying to get Copilot's circuits to adjust to an 'insufficient data available' response rather than having a preference for 'calculating the most desired response, here's a...
October 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Depends on the type of question, obviously, but I'd say those are generous odds for most of 'em compared with an AI.
I'm trying to get Copilot's circuits to adjust to an 'insufficient data available' response rather than having a preference for 'calculating the most desired response, here's a...
I'm trying to get Copilot's circuits to adjust to an 'insufficient data available' response rather than having a preference for 'calculating the most desired response, here's a...
She glanced at the copilot’s seat but remembered her earlier conversation with Louis. Yes, the C96 was a gift from his older brother and a prize from the war, but surely sentiment allowed for a more practical spare gun.
#WIPSnips #TraitorDevil
#WIPSnips #TraitorDevil
October 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
She glanced at the copilot’s seat but remembered her earlier conversation with Louis. Yes, the C96 was a gift from his older brother and a prize from the war, but surely sentiment allowed for a more practical spare gun.
#WIPSnips #TraitorDevil
#WIPSnips #TraitorDevil
With #Copilot Studio's update to add #Agentic approach, centralized memory management is crucial. Solutions like MemGPT/Letta and CrewAI address this need.
Now we have a new opportunity integrating MemGPT via Copilot's Action. #AI
A good course to start bit.ly/3O1vQLb
Now we have a new opportunity integrating MemGPT via Copilot's Action. #AI
A good course to start bit.ly/3O1vQLb
LLMs as Operating Systems: Agent Memory
Build systems with MemGPT agents that can autonomously manage their memory.
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November 10, 2024 at 8:24 AM
With #Copilot Studio's update to add #Agentic approach, centralized memory management is crucial. Solutions like MemGPT/Letta and CrewAI address this need.
Now we have a new opportunity integrating MemGPT via Copilot's Action. #AI
A good course to start bit.ly/3O1vQLb
Now we have a new opportunity integrating MemGPT via Copilot's Action. #AI
A good course to start bit.ly/3O1vQLb
This led to a 'great ironies of our time' moment for me. Copilot's AI BS had yet to appear, so to head it off at the pass (so to speak) I 'regraded' to classic (while getting strong Coke 1985 vibes). To do I had to close all Office apps. I did so. On re-opening, there was the effing copilot ... ffs
January 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM
This led to a 'great ironies of our time' moment for me. Copilot's AI BS had yet to appear, so to head it off at the pass (so to speak) I 'regraded' to classic (while getting strong Coke 1985 vibes). To do I had to close all Office apps. I did so. On re-opening, there was the effing copilot ... ffs
Love it! It's autocomplete is on steroids, much better than Copilot's. Also love it's apply code diff feature that works quite well accross many files.
I agree though it can get a bit much and I don't like that it often removes lines of code it shouldn't. Reviewing it's code is a bit annoying.
I agree though it can get a bit much and I don't like that it often removes lines of code it shouldn't. Reviewing it's code is a bit annoying.
October 27, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Love it! It's autocomplete is on steroids, much better than Copilot's. Also love it's apply code diff feature that works quite well accross many files.
I agree though it can get a bit much and I don't like that it often removes lines of code it shouldn't. Reviewing it's code is a bit annoying.
I agree though it can get a bit much and I don't like that it often removes lines of code it shouldn't. Reviewing it's code is a bit annoying.
Copilot's Claude 3.5 Sonnet does this lmao
December 19, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Copilot's Claude 3.5 Sonnet does this lmao