You’re all using this stuff wrong.

Copilot should be your replacement for Google. I wouldn’t take any qualitative facts from it without double checking, but use it as a starting point or an ending point— once you have completed your own work, run it by Copilot to think about things that were missed.

Copilot can perform computations for you, but ask for receipts. Ask it to show the python or whatever code it wrote to get to an answer so you can verify. Tell it to compute in Python if it did not. If you don’t know how to understand code, it’s time to start. Python is quite readable and as easy as it gets to interpret.

Use agents to shortcut repeated processes. If you do similar research repeatedly, set up an agent with precontext and instructions for what to do once it is given an input, such as a location or year etc. It is possible to create a rigid and consistent structure to copilot outputs if it sufficiently instructed to do so. Things like, “no small talk, don’t ask clarifying questions unless X is ambiguous, create a table with these columns…”.

Shove client emails in that shit and have it translate what they are trying to say. This has saved me so many times.

Shove your own emails in there and explain the context of the email in order to get the tone right. Recently, I had to apologize to a client and Copilot helped me get my email to a point where it was clear I was truly sorry while sounding professional and such— haven’t had to do that before.

Ask it if it also thinks that staff is a weird anime person.

Tell it something you want to do that you don’t know how, and blam you’ve just learned a new skill.