u/6FunnyGiraffes

Every so often I remember these long threads of customers interacting with a single product review. Or the absolutely unhinged IMDB forums.

Amazon's official reasoning for wiping out those features was that "no one was using them" and "people talk about movies on our Facebook page instead"

First of all that's literally not true. And its incredibly disrespectful to expect people believe that it was so just incredibly expensive to host text files and they just decided to delete them all.

Not only that but they trawl the entire internet collecting petabytes of user interaction data so they 100% know how valuable it was and have multiple redundancies of it.

So my whole thing is: do what you want. Be part of the problem that is ruining the internet. Just dont blatantly lie to me.

And that is a HIGH bar to clear, but let me explain. For whatever reason, each chat is a different instance of copilot. Not that it doesn't learn about you (it does sometimes) but each session has different capabilities that aren't made remotely visible to the user. Not only that but most people don't even KNOW copilot does this, so they're wondering how all their dreams came to life before their eyes one week, then next week it looked like a 2nd grader messed up all the formatting in Word. If you complain copilot starts walking you through a tutorial about how to copy and paste text into powerpoint and apply themes. This is bizarre.

There's clearly a lot going on here. The team actually working on the backend knows what they are doing. When allowed, copilot is an extremely useful tool, one of the better ones they've debuted in a while. When it's "not working" it lies to you, and wastes an hour of your time saying "okay this time I've got it I promise this time" It never does, and never will. Once it starts doing that you know your copilot instance wasn't allocated the correct resources. This is almost impossible to explain to people, and I could barely understand the decision myself even as a systsems analyst.

I thought MAYBE the idea was to allocate resources to different versions of copilot or apps like designer which actually cost money. This would have made sense, and I would have been mad but I would have paid for that version of copilot. Turns out they ALL work like this.

Now just, to make everything more infuriating let's create an entire suite of tools where you can't download anything. That's right. No export to anything, no print function, and when you ask copilot it enthusiastically tells you to press ctrl+p which, good luck doing that on a phone but it also doesn't even work in the desktop app. But it can help you select all text and paste it into a word document. Which... what? And then its excuse is that it was designed for collaboration unlike Word. I told it you can literally collaborate with people in word going on 2 decades now and it was like "yeah I guess I did lie about that" Again what?!

It has an obsession with generating square images. I have no idea why, that's not the ideal or most pleasing aesthetic for almost anything, when was the last time you saw a square poster or painting?

So basically we have have a piece of software where the core team is doing a phenomenal job, when copilot works it is amazing. But every other single department involved seems to be eating paint chips and actively trying to shoot up the school because this amout of fumbled bag is legendary.

Why would you even buy VoodooPC just to strip it of all its personality. Literally do away with the tribal mask logo for what purpose? I am glad we got the Omen X and 880. Those are dope and what a modern VoodooPC should look like. So where did things go wrong?