- Microsoft published a simple flex on Copilot in X
- It said: “Copilot finishing your code before you finish your coffee.”
- The answers below are quite interesting, including comments on whether this is why Windows 11 updates are so buggy.
Microsoft intends to push AI’s strengths as Windows 11 heads firmly toward a future of Copilot and multiple AI agents, and a new post about X is causing even more controversy.
In case you missed it, there has been quite a negative reaction from many quarters around the recent revelations of the new artificial intelligence features that Microsoft is bringing to Windows 11 (including Agent AI, one of the latest buzzwords).
Ignoring that anger in a rather reckless manner, as Windows Latest reports, the official Microsoft account on X posted a simple flex as follows: “The co-pilot finishes his code before he finishes his coffee.”
Intel agreed to the idea immediately, and the Blue Team business account at X responded and said, “THAT is productivity!”
Unfortunately for Microsoft, almost everyone who posted a response was not so happy. In fact, some of the countless responses to Microsoft’s boast are so cold that, if words could be used as exotic cooling for an unprecedented overclock attempt, we’d have a 10GHz CPU in town (well, not quite, but you get the point).
The first posted answer, in fact, is a minor stroke of genius, courtesy of a graphic designer: “I can finish my coffee before right-click > task manager opens.”
And then point out the many people who can’t resist asking if that’s why Windows 11 breaks after every update, or if Copilot is finishing the Windows 11 code and how that would explain a lot of things.
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In fact, there are a lot of comments about whether the Copilot termination code has anything to do with the state of Windows 11 and errors, but this is not something new. In almost every post I’ve seen on Reddit or This all goes back to earlier this year, when CEO Satya Nadella informed us that up to 30% of Microsoft’s coding was done by AI.
So, at a time when there is still an active backlash echoing through online forums everywhere, caused by how Microsoft is pushing to add more artificial intelligence to Windows 11, you can see how it seems pretty tone-deaf for the company’s social media staff to post something like this. This is the problem with what happened here, regardless of Copilot’s actual coding competence, or lack thereof, which is the other major source of the criticism taken in the responses to Microsoft’s post.
Regarding the latter, without a doubt Copilot, or AI in a broader sense, can be a useful tool when coding. Programmers use it for heavier tasks, although among programmers there are discussions and doubts about the use of AI for that (and how it promotes bad practices in general).
The broader concern is that using AI to help with coding will make people lazy over time and erode fundamental skills, ultimately leading to a programming world where AI takes over more and more and humans will find it increasingly difficult to understand code and be able to fix it effectively when problems arise.
All of which sound like valid concerns, but for now, Microsoft simply needs to calm the absolute enthusiasm for AI features and read the room. Because those recent developments with Windows 11 still have some people feeling upset about where this is all going and why Microsoft isn’t addressing what they consider to be much more pressing issues in Windows 11, namely fixing existing problems and cracking down on bugs.
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