Yeah I do this too. I'm involved in a GenAI (copilot) project. And I know we check how often it's used so I just say hello to it every day. Because I can't be s

Yeah I do this too. I'm involved in a GenAI (copilot) project. And I know we check how often it's used so I just say hello to it every day. Because I can't be seen to be at the bottom of the list. I don't think genai as currently included in ms office is very useful. Simple things it can do like writing emails but in such a stupid formal way that people instantly know it's not me because it can't clone my style. It's more work to tell it how to write an email than to do it myself. And I can read fast so I don't need summarisation of emails. More advanced things like complex Excel modifications, things I could actually use help with, work badly. From "there's been a problem, please try again later" to just doing completely stupid stuff. Creating a PowerPoint? Yeah it can do that but it's a one shot thing. I can't say "ok nice start but change xyz". It'll just tell me to do it myself in a passive aggressive way. I can restart the generation but it's like rolling the dice because every time it gives a completely different design. It's cool for demonstrations, completely useless for actual work. Everything else just costs me more time than doing it myself especially because I have to verify to make sure it didn't hallucinate. The only thing I do see value in is finding stuff back. Look through my emails and find that dude I spoke to about buying new company phones two years ago, that kinda stuff. There's some promising new features coming like the researcher (reasoning engine) and analyst, and it's slowly starting to become somewhat useful. I'm sure it'll get there. But right now I don't bother with it. So I just fake it. But it's a bit disheartening when everyone wants to go full steam ahead with something rusty that's still so rough around the edges. But everyone is crazy about getting on board this train. I do have a big AI server at home. While it's even worse performing, I don't need to trust big tech to use it which is a must-have for any kind of personal use for me whatsoever.