[HN Gopher] Microsoft Introduces 'Copilot Mode' in Edge
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Microsoft Introduces 'Copilot Mode' in Edge
Author : Bogdanp
Score : 42 points
Date : 2025-07-29 16:07 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| crinkly wrote:
| From the Privacy Policy: There will always be clear, visual cues
| on your browser when Copilot is viewing or listening.
|
| _" CoPilot, please install Firefox for me"_
| pinewurst wrote:
| "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
| cibyr wrote:
| "built to the highest Microsoft standards of security, privacy
| and performance" seems perhaps importantly different from "but to
| the highest standards".
| askonomm wrote:
| Translation: plain-text/no security, as much telemetry as
| possible, and performance depends on how beefy of a computer
| you have, but it better be beefy.
| meindnoch wrote:
| I wonder if "the highest Microsoft standards" are above of
| below "military grade"?
| rs186 wrote:
| "the highest Microsoft standards of security, privacy and
| performance" is a very low bar. It doesn't add any confidence.
| They might as well not talk about it at all.
| fzaninotto wrote:
| This new browser mode is a robot that replaces visitors on
| websites. It can't be good news for website editors...
|
| Should we (developers) start building websites for robots?
| askonomm wrote:
| AI is building websites for AI. Let the enshittification
| Olympics commence!
| franze wrote:
| Well, guess what we are doing when we say SEO?
| josefresco wrote:
| We already build websites for Googlebot so I don't really see
| much a difference. Maybe designers should be worried because if
| there's nothing to "look at" there's no point in making it look
| nice. This feels like XML/XHTML all over again.
| __loam wrote:
| Legitimately reads like an April fool's joke
| TrackerFF wrote:
| A big ongoing challenge is how to automate human actions on
| websites - specifically those that don't offer any API for the
| data needed, and and make it as hard as possible to scrape them.
| Almost every data job I've had, have had such part time projects
| going on internally, typical "How do we automate data extraction
| from [x] site" where the websites either refuse to provide any
| services, or simply can't (don't have the resources). And up
| until now it has been some sort of RPA / Robotic Process
| Automation problem.
|
| I'm not talking about nefarious motives for doing such either,
| for our part it is just tedious task where humans spend too much
| time filling in forms / clicking on UI components, and doing the
| download manually.
|
| So while letting agents run wild on problems like this can (and
| surely will) lead to abuse, it will likely also free up _so_ much
| time for the people doing such tasks for actual work.
| Aachen wrote:
| > or simply can't (don't have the resources). And up until now
| it has been some sort of RPA / Robotic Process Automation
| problem.
|
| Wouldn't it be like half the cost to your organisation if you
| do it for them? If govt agency xyz doesn't have the resources
| to build this, offer to make it, get access to the source, plug
| it into a dead simple API, get your data and everybody's happy?
|
| I've never held a data analysis position so I have no idea if
| such an org would be open to it. If not, it sounds more like
| the former issue (gatekeeping and unwillingness) than the
| latter (inability or resource lack)
| meindnoch wrote:
| No, because then they would realize their data is worth
| money.
| Aachen wrote:
| The person above said they were approaching these places
| already, so latest at that time, they've realised that
| ghxst wrote:
| I had no idea that Microsoft set up a discord server for copilot.
| nolok wrote:
| I don't understand what microsoft is doing with their Copilot
| whatever push.
|
| They have 50 different offers, all with their own pricing, and
| they all suck, and Microsoft themselves don't like their results
| in that field.
|
| Let me solve it for you Microsoft: the money maker you're sitting
| on today, is "hey excel, make a summary of those 8 sheets to
| identify our 5 most profitables products and their evolution in
| sales the past 3 years, add that on a new sheet at the end with a
| visual graph". None of their product does that right now, instead
| they tell you the step on how to do it.
|
| Instead of making a bazillion different weird thing, Excel and
| Office already have their API, just make your "AI" bridge natural
| talk to excel common task and see every company register it for
| their employee. I'm not even exagerating, I would in an instant.
|
| I tried many AI tool for excel and none of them come anywhere
| close to that. It must be much harder than I first thought, but
| then again they spent BILLIONS on this.
|
| For a company that own business logic as a basic idea, they're
| really terrible at exploiting it with new ideas. Even just
| natural talk to power query steps would be worth it.
| oidar wrote:
| It really is super obvious that the winning move for most apps
| is to add an text interface with LLM capabilities. Like autocad
| - but LLM accessible.
| Mystery-Machine wrote:
| You say "text interface" because that's what you're most used
| to. It could as well be audio interface.
| bn-l wrote:
| The tech is arguably not there yet. From my own observations,
| normies get annoyed quickly because they expect it to work like
| deterministic software. And they tend to be way less interested
| in it in general, especially when I'm breathlessly telling them
| about this and that latest development.
| karel-3d wrote:
| oh wow people want their software to be deterministic and
| with the same set of inputs get the same set of outputs! What
| is this, the 90s?
| nolok wrote:
| But I can ask the AI, it understand what I want and give me
| the steps. I can ask it to give it to me in api call instead
| and it does, after a bit of mashup.
|
| Sure the api link and permissions and yada yada plays a part,
| but thats exactly how they can trap us into office365, with
| already use azure permissions and everything.
|
| Again I'm sure it's harder than it looks, but it's not an AI
| problem anymore, and they're throwing billions at it.
| ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 wrote:
| > normies
|
| do you mean users?
| wkat4242 wrote:
| Yeah they don't understand we're in the equivalent phase that
| the commodore 64 was for the computer.
| surgical_fire wrote:
| > normies get annoyed quickly because they expect it to work
| like deterministic software
|
| In very few use cases it is acceptable to have non-
| deterministic result for computation tasks. It does not
| matter if you are a normie or an advanced user.
| dotancohen wrote:
| Normal people don't understand what the word deterministic
| is, nor do they really expect their software to produce
| deterministic results. For one thing, they're not running
| the operation multiple times and comparing the outputs. For
| another, if they give the same task to three different
| people they're going to get three different results anyway,
| so what does it matter if the computer gives three
| different results, if they even notice.
| surgical_fire wrote:
| > Normal people don't understand what the word
| deterministic is
|
| I would argue that they implicitly do, as any user
| expects the same action performed on a computer or
| similar system to provide the same outcome.
|
| > For another, if they give the same task to three
| different people they're going to get three different
| results
|
| Give the same three tasks to a single user to be executed
| three times separately, and he will get supremely annoyed
| if his actions do not give him the same results.
| bigstrat2003 wrote:
| Not even implicitly understand. A layman is perfectly
| capable of understanding what deterministic behavior is,
| and claiming otherwise is just condescension.
| fn-mote wrote:
| I think "normal" (non-computer) people have a mental
| model for computing that is more like a (possibly bad)
| coworker.
|
| They would quickly adapt to "reload it a few times if it
| doesn't work right away".
|
| Isn't this what people are already doing when they browse
| the web? I know I am.
| izacus wrote:
| What are you basing those claims on?
| donmcronald wrote:
| > "hey excel, make a summary of those 8 sheets to identify our
| 5 most profitables products and their evolution in sales the
| past 3 years, add that on a new sheet at the end with a visual
| graph"
|
| Aren't they just pattern recognition and regurgitation
| machines? How would it analyze and interpret unique data with a
| pattern it's never seen?
|
| Some of the AI stuff is very useful, but it's been massively
| oversold. In my experience, it's great for working on
| documentation or creating a one-time-use script to query an
| API, but it's not good at the "big picture" tasks they want for
| a sales pitch.
| prashnts wrote:
| I would give the LLM statistical tools that work to find
| general anomalies, distributions etc. from the spreadsheet.
| Then it's about an LLM interpreting (or not) those results in
| natural language.
|
| Of course this is a can of worms for a product because we can
| still not guarantee accuracy.
| donmcronald wrote:
| That makes sense to me in terms of tech, but I don't get
| how the economics will work. If one company has an agent
| that's a great statistical tool, another is great for
| making charts, another is great for grammar and spelling,
| etc., I'm guessing it'll cost a bazillion dollars in
| subscriptions.
| dotancohen wrote:
| > How would it analyze and interpret unique data with a
| pattern it's never seen?
|
| That's called unsupervised learning, and it was field of
| study in machine learning long before LLMs were anything near
| viable. Surprisingly, LLMs are good at it too.
| danso wrote:
| Having recently watched a corporate trainer spend 15 minutes
| trying to figure out why Copilot wasn't correctly importing a
| CSV with headers when "it worked fine when I showed this 2
| weeks ago" -- my guess is that the tech isn't quite there yet
| to sell (reliable) AI-powered Excel
| autoexec wrote:
| > It must be much harder than I first thought, but then again
| they spent BILLIONS on this.
|
| Which is why MS and every other company keeps pushing half-
| baked garbage AI products onto the public at every opportunity.
| So much money has been sunk into AI that they need something to
| show for it. They also hope that as people use it they can
| improve the AI they have so that maybe one day it can become
| something worthwhile. As a bonus it's one more way for them to
| collect your data and get you used to asking an AI for what you
| need instead of using your brain.
| mceoin wrote:
| Check out Sourcetable, you might like it for your AI
| spreadsheet work. It's _much_ better than Excel copilot in
| every aspect (financial modeling, data science, data cleaning,
| agent tools, etc.)
| wincy wrote:
| I asked o3 pro to do something like this a few months ago when
| I paid for a month of ChatGPT Pro. It got very excited and said
| it was on it and spent 20 minutes absolutely cranking. Then it
| spit out the world's saddest excel file with no formatting, and
| half the data truncated.
| homeonthemtn wrote:
| Sounds like my post-coffee morning routine, with similar
| results
| Spoom wrote:
| Not quite the thing you're describing, but I saw this demoed
| recently and thought it was pretty cool: The AI function in
| Google Sheets[1]. Call Gemini with the context of individual
| cells and have it respond in the same cell. Take a look if your
| company is in Workspace Labs.
|
| 1. https://support.google.com/docs/answer/15820999
|
| Disclaimer: Googler, opinions my own.
| tialaramex wrote:
| Microsoft's branding is mostly about time and should not be
| assumed to have any other significance. You might think you can
| guess what "Visual Direct COM" would be or "Active Windows.NET"
| but the words have no meaning beside "Currently this word is
| hot so my new product needs that word". A Copilot XBox Edge
| might be a video game console with AI but it equally might be a
| new version of Excel. There is no coherent rationale.
|
| A company with an actual rationale names products PlayStation,
| PlayStation 2, PS3, PS4, PS5
|
| Microsoft called their rival products XBox, XBox 360, XBox One,
| XBox Series
|
| Asked to put six animals in order, some might figure Anteater,
| Bear, Elephant, Fox, Goose, Pigeon makes sense - alphabetical
| order, English names. Others might try to rank them by size,
| the Elephant is definitely bigger than a Bear, but is the Fox
| bigger than a Goose? Not sure. You might give them Latin names,
| there are several reasonable things you might do or at least
| attempt
|
| But Microsoft are like that's easy: Elephant, Dog, Squirrel,
| Another Squirrel, Sparrow, Bear, Elephant. And like, that's not
| even six animals, and it's the wrong animals, and your order
| makes no sense, what is wrong with you?
| danudey wrote:
| How many times has Microsoft had some kind of product that
| isn't taking off how they wanted to, so they just rename it
| and give it a new coat of paint? Microsoft Office? I think
| you mean Office 365! What does that mean? Nothing, it's just
| Office but you don't get to decide when to update.
|
| Anyway, now it's Office 365 Copilot! What does that mean? It
| means it's Office, but with an AI which you didn't ask for,
| which doesn't really do much for you practically, and also
| which costs 50% more, and you can only opt-out by trying to
| cancel your subscription entirely.
|
| You can tell AI is a grift because it's all dark patterns and
| lies with these people.
| crinkly wrote:
| They're going for the "if we throw shit at everything then some
| of it will stick". The problem is everything is covered in
| shit.
|
| The things that aren't shit are harder than they thought.
| insane_dreamer wrote:
| My experience with Google Docs + Gemini is similar. Gemini is
| great for coding, but the integration with Docs / Sheets /
| Slides / Drive is absolute garbage; does hardly anything
| useful, doesn't do the actual tedious jobs I want it to do. It
| couldn't even find a document in Drive based on my description,
| or create a decent-looking slide.
|
| (Gemini is proving excellent for coding, but it shocks me how
| poor the integration is for other uses.)
|
| The "AI" integrations I've tried in other tools (Figma, Gamma)
| are pretty much garbage too.
| danudey wrote:
| > I don't understand what microsoft is doing with their Copilot
| whatever push.
|
| Anything they can think of. Honestly, anywhere they think that
| they could put AI to try to convince people that it's a real
| thing to care about, they put it there. Google is doing the
| same thing; I get popups any time I try to access any Google
| thing, like mail, docs, or the Google Cloud console. I don't
| care, Gemini, and I don't trust you.
|
| Even Apple is jumping in on the AI train, presumably just to
| avoid getting beaten up in the press for being "behind the
| times", but thankfully they seem to be trying to start slow and
| make a good product out of it (which they have yet to do)
| rather than telling everyone that it can revolutionize
| everything that anyone ever does and forcing people to hear
| about it at every opportunity.
| mgh2 wrote:
| Such crap products, yet they are valued more than Apple.
| Finance folks are not engineers or product people, so they
| don't know any better.
| JumpCrisscross wrote:
| > _50 different offers, all with their own pricing_
|
| They also randomly time out mid-task, _e.g._ in image
| generation, without an obvious way to pay for more compute
| time.
| donmcronald wrote:
| > you can let Copilot see all your open tabs so it can understand
| the full context of what you're exploring online
|
| Isn't that going to poison the context with low quality, SEO blog
| spam? How long is it going to be before content mills start
| filling the web with defensible lies?
|
| For example, "exploding cell phone charger X is built with a high
| quality transformer." The AI will mindlessly regurgitate that
| without considering the nuance of source. When _I_ evaluate that
| stuff the source plays a major role in the weight I give to the
| statement.
|
| None of the AI I've seen does a proper job of considering the
| source and I'm guessing it's because they _can 't_ attribute
| sources due to the massive IP theft that was required to build
| the systems.
| Mystery-Machine wrote:
| Google already has page score for every website out there. What
| makes you think that their LLM can't be made to use it? That
| statement sounds a lot like "AI can't generate human fingers,
| it will never be able to generate realistic images with humans
| in them" or "it can't do X so it will never be able to code Y".
| Shortsighted.
| donmcronald wrote:
| Google search results are much worse than they used to be.
| And how would an LLM extrapolate good outputs from garbage
| inputs?
| kburman wrote:
| It feels like one user-hostile move after another from Microsoft
| lately. Forcing Edge, using dark patterns to block Chrome,
| resetting telemetry with updates, the whole Recall fiasco... and
| now this. It's exhausting.
|
| My working theory is they see Google's browser revenue and think,
| "we're the OS, we deserve a bigger cut." It's an incredible level
| of arrogance that's burning through decades of user trust for
| short-term gain.
|
| Instead of all this, why not actually compete by being better?
| They could make Windows a bastion of privacy that protects users
| from app snooping. They could foster a real native app ecosystem
| again, like on macOS, so the OS itself adds unique value. That's
| how you build loyalty, not this constant squeezing of your user
| base.
| autoexec wrote:
| I feel like Microsoft's attitude is that they can screw over
| their users, make money hand over fist by exploiting their
| private and personal data, and Windows users will be powerless
| because there's nowhere else for them to go. Anyone who was
| going to use an Apple computer is already doing it. They aren't
| afraid of linux either (although maybe they should be since
| it's been gaining ground). Why care about building loyalty or
| adding value when you're a monopoly?
| tracker1 wrote:
| They should be more scared... Mac, ChromeOS and Linux now
| have roughly 1/3 of desktop/laptop users. Linux having gained
| a lot of ground just this past year, and IMO Valve is
| probably solely responsible for most of that.
|
| Even with the Valve store cut as high as it is, and some of
| their sketchy terms... they've been far better stewards to
| gaming than MS has been to Computing/OS.
| skydhash wrote:
| Isn't Google Revenue mostly Ads? Chrome is free, YouTube is
| free, and most of the services targetting the general public
| are also free. With Microsoft, it was expected that you pay for
| anything useful (Windows, Office, Visual Studio,...).
| tracker1 wrote:
| Exactly... they've had glimmers of greatness here and there,
| and it feels like a handful of executive weenies literally
| twist it to try and wrench every penny of value from every
| user/customer they can.
|
| For the love of $diety, complete a UI transition across the OS,
| get things in order, stop shoveling things onto people, don't
| return ads and internet search results from start-menu searches
| and just make great products. I was an Edge fan until they
| added all the garbage, starting with coupons, etc.
|
| VS Code has been good, but they gimp their own .Net support...
| they do great with .Net/C# but turn around and dump their only
| SQL for ARM option as ARM is taking off... They rebrand RDP
| despite it being considered the best UI remoting option around.
| They keep releasing CoPilot everything that doesn't do the one
| thing that would give their users the most value, and are sub-
| par with open offerings.
|
| At this point, I cannot support MS-SQL over PostgreSQL for any
| new projects given a choice. I definitely don't support
| developing solutions to run on Windows Server, and I'm
| questioning my use of VS Code despite it being by far my
| favorite editor since shortly after release.
| deafpolygon wrote:
| why? they already sell your data to all the 3 letter agencies
| adamrezich wrote:
| It's kind of funny how "Copilot" has become the new "Live"--this
| Brand Word that Microsoft marketing seems obsessed with, branding
| everything they can with it, completely regardless of how much
| they dilute whatever positive qualities their users initially
| associated with it.
| rs186 wrote:
| Who would thought that Microsoft did not change a single bit
| after two decades?
|
| A link that I found on a different HN thread that is somewhat
| related: https://www.osnews.com/story/19921/full-text-an-epic-
| bill-ga...
| pndy wrote:
| Don't forget about MSN, Windows Live, Metro. I wonder what will
| be the " _next big thing_ " they'll gonna push as a brand
| fleebee wrote:
| Not sure I like the fact that Copilot inferred that Dylan likes
| football so it offered to buy tickets when Dylan launched his
| browser.
|
| In general, this seems to be less about empowering users and more
| about shoving AI in their faces. You don't need to prompt
| anything, it just is there.
| skydhash wrote:
| > _For decades, the way we've used browsers has remained linear:
| open a tab (or 20), search for something, read a page, repeat.
| It's a model that's worked well, but it hasn't fundamentally
| changed._
|
| Is it linear though? I think most people are using tabs the way
| everyone use documents. Open one, find the passage you need and
| keep it there. Lots of current web app makes that hard (lazy
| loading, memory leaks,...).
|
| A better augmentation would be annotations. Create a new
| notetaking session which appears in a side bar, then either
| screenshot or highlight a section, then it is saved alongside the
| comment (and tags) and the context (link, date,..). No need for a
| lurking agent.
|
| ADDENDUM
|
| A somewhat simpler version can be found in Orgmode and Emacs. You
| can store link to almost anything and then the capture feature in
| Org mode can use them in templates.
| tracker1 wrote:
| When Edge first released, I really liked it... even made it my
| default on Linux for a while. Then came the in-the-box features,
| like coupon offers, etc... and I just had more and more crap to
| disable to where I just went back to Brave.
|
| I like nice browser syncing between devices. I don't even mind
| what that means in terms of some slack on privacy... What I don't
| like are in your face marketing efforts. I absolutely abhor
| commercials, and have been willing to pay for services that don't
| have them. I switched to Linux literally the first time I saw an
| ad in the start menu search results.
|
| _I_ don 't need Microsoft products. I'm a computer user first,
| and a consumer a distant second. MS really needs to learn this
| lesson. Just saw that US Gov is reporting 6% Linux desktop usage,
| which is higher than the 5% StatsCounter recently posted. Linux
| has gained 20-30% in just this past year, even Gaming on Linux
| while less than perfect/ideal is still relatively smooth for most
| games thanks to Valve/Steam, they definitely use their 30% cut
| well and while expensive seem to be at least a good steward of
| their ecosystem.
|
| I feel like Microsoft has completely lost he plot in a lot of
| ways. Azure and .Net have had every opportunity to become
| darlings in the developer community... the tooling and options
| are pretty good. VS Code has become just about the most popular
| developer editor (not to mention forks). Why they choose to abuse
| their common users is beyond me... if they just stuck to the
| great parts without trying to wrench every penny of value from
| every user they would be much more well regarded.
|
| As it stands, any company selling commercial software should
| seriously be working on packaging for Linux... at least
| appImage/Flatpak. There's especially good opportunity for
| competing software vendors to Adobe in this space. It's one of
| the few gaps, and the tide of software for Linux is definitely
| growing and there's plenty of room for commercial software here.
| carodgers wrote:
| +1 for Brave!
| anthk wrote:
| Brave it's Spyware.
| hankman86 wrote:
| Why has basic product management gone out of the window in this
| new era of AI enablement? Like on the most basic level: who ever
| asked for this, where is product-market fit for this kind of
| browser automation?
| rs186 wrote:
| Bloomberg's piece on Microsoft Copilot, if you haven't read it:
|
| https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-24/chatgpt-v...
|
| And HN discussion:
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44367638
|
| Basically, nobody wants to use Copilot, because it sucks.
| dmix wrote:
| > Microsoft is struggling to sell its Copilot AI assistant to
| corporations because many of their employees want ChatGPT.
|
| So Copilot isn't using GPT?
|
| I tried googling it and one thread said they use GPT4. Maybe
| it's the wrapper they built that doesn't work well.
| rs186 wrote:
| GPT and ChatGPT are two different things. One is an LLM, the
| other is a full product.
|
| > Maybe it's the wrapper they built that doesn't work well.
|
| That's the issue. It's almost difficult to imagine you can
| build a bad product on top of GPT models, but Microsoft
| showed us how.
| deafpolygon wrote:
| more ways to try and track user behaviour and steal... i mean,
| request private user data.
| asim wrote:
| Whoever starts by replacing the operating system with this style
| of interface wins. The point isn't to reinvent the browser, it's
| to change how we interact with technology completely. Right now
| it's all iteration but essentially if all you need is ChatGPT
| then just make the OS a chat interface to begin with.
| terhechte wrote:
| So interesting to read all these negative comments. I'm actually
| considering installing Edge because this something I've really
| been wanting for some time. I run Safari & Firefox and I know
| there're some plugins, but this deep integration (e.g. across
| tabs) is missing. I usually open 15+ tabs when I'm researching
| something, and then being able to ask an LLM questions across
| these tabs is awesome.
|
| The main reason for me not to install this, honestly, is that
| I've heard that OpenAI is working on something similar and I
| already have their subscription. I might just wait a bit longer,
| but I really can see the appeal of this product.
| nerevarthelame wrote:
| I tried using it and am not impressed. I don't know if it's
| possible to do any of the things shown in the promotional videos.
| It seems like a typical web-enabled LLM, but in a browser
| extension. I didn't see ANY functionality from "Copilot mode"
| that doesn't already exist in any other web-enabled LLM. It
| couldn't book anything. It didn't move through the site. It did
| poor analysis. It hallucinated links. It gaslit me and told me
| that I needed to manually do the things I was asking - and gave
| me incorrect instructions on how to do that.
|
| I had to double-check that I was correctly opted into this new
| feature because it seemed like a terrible implementation of very
| established technology. Every task I attempted was a frustrating
| failure. Embarrassingly bad stuff.
|
| If you really want to know my specific gripes: I navigated to a
| major hotel chain's site that I have discounted rates at, subject
| to availability. I asked Copilot to find me a hotel within
| driving distance to my home with those discounted rates available
| for certain dates. It claimed that it checked that the rates were
| available (something I didn't expect it to be able to do), and
| gave me a few hotels. The hotels exist, but every one of the
| "View hotel details" links were broken. Although it said it
| checked to see if rooms were available under the discounted
| rates, it definitely didn't. I tried to get it to book a
| reservation anyway, and it said that the "page isn't loading
| properly right now - either it's been moved or there's a glitch
| on the hotel's site." The hotel's site was working just fine.
|
| I navigated to a recipe website I often use. I asked Copilot to
| find me some recipes fitting certain basic criteria ("vegan,"
| "quick and easy").
|
| The links it provided to each recipe were all to the main page -
| not actually to the recipes themselves, even though the labeled
| link text suggested it would be to the individual recipe.
|
| Although the site has a plethora of vegan options, 2/4 of its
| recommendations were non-vegan recipes that it gave tips on how
| to make vegan. Recommending that I make quesadillas by "swapping
| nutritional yeast instead of dairy cheese" is a terrible, awful
| idea. Especially in the context of all the other great, already
| vegan recipes on the site it ignored to make this recommendation.
|
| For the other converted-to-vegan recipe, I manually searched for
| the original recipe (since it couldn't provide recipe-specific
| links) to see that the author already had a vegan version of the
| recipe linked in the original instructions. Copilot's
| veganization was unnecessary and lower quality than what the
| author had already provided on the site.
| aziaziazi wrote:
| For what it worth: nutritional yeast is great to replace
| parmigiana-like cheese. For mozzarella it's probable a bad
| choice if you want to be as close as possible, but yeast is
| definitely not an hallucination as a cheese replacement. I'd be
| interested to see one or two propositions if you're willing to
| share.
| thesdev wrote:
| > For decades, the way we've used browsers has remained linear:
| open a tab (or 20), search for something, read a page, repeat.
| It's a model that's worked well, but it hasn't fundamentally
| changed.
|
| Maybe it doesn't need to change if it's working well? Have you
| considered that?
| bigstrat2003 wrote:
| Next they'll be trying to sell you on eating with your ear or
| something because "for millennia, the way we eat food hasn't
| fundamentally changed".
| rich_sasha wrote:
| What I really need is a copilot plugin for my copilot. Coming up
| with good prompts is hard, I want an LLM fine tuned for this
| particular task.
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