No wonder if Microsoft failed to deliver a single AI tool that adds value.
ramoz•28m ago
I meet with enterprise clients who explore things like Copilot Studio.
Microsoft platforms move too slowly too keep up with innovation pace, and suffer from classic platform restriction in regards to building useful, relevant, and *reliable* integrations into business systems.
My advise is to always start from scratch with AI, e.g. "build your own agent" and focus intimately on the rules/guardrails and custom tools you need for that agent to create value. A platform can't do that for you in current day.
MSFT needs to stay focused on O365 and coding tools with very simple UX wins. Not introduce custom agent platforms and auto-embed intrusive agents where no one asked for them.
s1mplicissimus•12m ago
Not to give "AI" too much credit here, but I wonder what was the last time MS built a value delivering product in the first place
giancarlostoro•5m ago
Well they've been making improvements to Notepad, like now it has tabs, and you can close it without saving a single one, sort of how I used Sublime Text for note tracking.
tehlike•1m ago
Wow. I had no idea. Last time I used windows was probably 13 years ago...
Rooster61•29m ago
I keep wondering how many things like this need to happen before the other shoe drops and the ring-around-the-rosie investment structure collapses. It's become very obvious that "AI" in its current form isn't going to turn a profit, at least not in the short term.
dpflan•9m ago
Where is AI actually selling and doing well? What's a good resource for these numbers? What are the smaller scale use-cases where AI is selling well?
I am generally curious, because LLMs, VLMs, generative AI, advances are proving useful, but the societal impact scale and at this the desired rate is not revealing itself.
ramoz•1m ago
Coding - e.g. Claude Code, Cursor both announced 1B revenue run rates.
dpflan•1m ago
Agreed, coding is one. What else?
hansmayer•8m ago
You´d think after Clippy and Windows 7, they´d take the clue and stop producing software that creates friction for users, instead of removing it?
allisdust•1m ago
You mean Vista. Windows 7 was perfect. Till it was ruined by what shall not be named.
philberto•34m ago
ramoz•28m ago
Microsoft platforms move too slowly too keep up with innovation pace, and suffer from classic platform restriction in regards to building useful, relevant, and *reliable* integrations into business systems.
My advise is to always start from scratch with AI, e.g. "build your own agent" and focus intimately on the rules/guardrails and custom tools you need for that agent to create value. A platform can't do that for you in current day.
MSFT needs to stay focused on O365 and coding tools with very simple UX wins. Not introduce custom agent platforms and auto-embed intrusive agents where no one asked for them.
s1mplicissimus•12m ago
giancarlostoro•5m ago
tehlike•1m ago