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Openai announces new slop generator GPT-6 Astra: Unfortunately not any better than the last one
openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/
Replying to @potato_lemon@feddit.nl
We have copilot at work and we are expected to use it. They recently updated the Copilot desktop app to include live voice chat, where you can have actual “conversations” with it. To be honest, that actually is kind of impressive. Unfortunately, that’s also about where the impressiveness stops. I burned up all of my daily voice chat limits, and I don’t even know how many tokens trying to get that stupid thing to walk me through making a relatively minor configuration change in Azure. It could not do it. It was consistently wrong about so many things.
You would think Microsoft would be embarrassed about selling a chatbot that can’t even tell you how to make basic configuration changes to their own products. Personally, I’m not strongly opposed to LLMs. But the value proposition that all these tech firms are currently selling is laughable at best.
Replying to @jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
The different LLMs do vary in abilities. What I find amazing is how bad Copilot is compared to any of the others. Not just on complex stuff, but basic requests. I've had local models do better, years ago.
Replying to @Rhaedas@fedia.io
IKR? For what it costs and for how hard Microsoft has worked to shoehorn it into everything, it offers very little in terms of increased productivity. I would go so far as to call it an epic failure. Especially considering they spent vast sums of money on it and all they managed to produce was something that is at best marginally good at drafting emails.
As far as a coding assistant, Copilot is pathetic and produces code that is utter trash much of the time.
Isn’t copilot using GPT 5.6? I have always wondered why it’s still so bad despite that.
Replying to @Rhaedas@fedia.io
AFAIK compilot just provides integration with visual studio and GitHub, it doesn’t have its own models. You pay through Microsoft to use use other companies’ models (like GPT or Claude). Though agent harness itself has a big impact on the performance of models.