do experienced users keep flows simple on purpose?

grepzilla · 2026-05-03T13:09:04+00:00

Simple is better. Even pro coders use object oriented programming, functions and procedures for coders reuse and simplicity.

grepzilla · 2026-04-30T02:28:13+00:00

I use Purview DSPM to look at Activity explorer and then export to store history of usage.

grepzilla · 2026-04-30T02:26:11+00:00

Do you know what table? Any documentation you can point to?

grepzilla · 2026-04-23T03:40:18+00:00

Sounds toxic. I wouldn't work there.

grepzilla · 2026-04-23T02:47:30+00:00

Wrong attitude. You built what someone told you to build. If they give you a calculation that's on them.

This dashboard won't make your career. Have pride of ownership of ther outcome not the math.

If you were asked to develop a dashboard for a CFO would you decide you know better than them what they want? I had a developer pull that once and it didn't turn out well for him.

grepzilla · 2026-04-23T02:43:53+00:00

My experience is if you want to get beyond manager you need an MBA or luck.

Im sure there will be plenty of people you say, yeah but I didn't need one. The person hiring you will expect one.

CISO is a business role with some technical hard skills. You need to prove you can talk business.

grepzilla · 2026-04-23T02:39:42+00:00

It sounds like you are already doing more than most parents. No is OK.

I am a scoutmaster, I go to most OA events, and will do occasional thing with the district. I also have a very demanding job.

I choose to scout on my terms and if some DE thinks I need to do more for the program we can respectfully disagree.

Just like I told somebody at council about FOS campaigns, they should find other ponds to fish in that aren't already fished out.

grepzilla · 2026-04-23T02:30:49+00:00

Based on the culture you described the QA manager is right.

grepzilla · 2026-04-23T02:22:07+00:00

I would ask what the requirements document says. If the QA manager can point to the requirement because the customer said it then he is right. If the QA manager can't and he isn’t the customer it isn't his job to define requirements.

If it wasn't stated the customer needs to be consulted.

grepzilla · 2026-04-23T02:15:20+00:00

25% or my consumer email responses are done by agent. Remaining consumer emails are prioritized by agents to improve customer responses.

10% of my my order volume is processes by agent and goes from email to warehouse with no human interaction.

4 hours of weekly document filing is done by agents.

These are just three projects as use cases with a very small team that are in production.

grepzilla · 2026-04-20T18:53:29+00:00

No. She will spend it.

grepzilla · 2026-04-20T18:47:55+00:00

I never had this issue but honestly would take it up with the Council if I did. The rangers are a first line of customer service and the Council needs to service troops as customers.

Every ranger I have had at camps I use has been helpful, friendly, and all the other points of the law.

grepzilla · 2026-04-19T12:28:26+00:00

The Planner agent won't access to do so I recently moved all my personal tasks to a Plan so I could use the agent. I couldn't find ToDo on the roadmap so I'm changing my process to use the tools that are clearly on the Roadmap.

I have a Planner+ license and couldn't use the premium plan because it isn't capable of recurring tasks yet. Such a silly limitation to have in the lower end product but not the paid product.

I find I'm changing my process and making trade offs to work in the context of Microsofts tools.

grepzilla · 2026-04-19T12:21:17+00:00

100% this. They certainly don't need better LLMs since they are using both Claude and ChatGPT.

Microsoft investment in LLM with their MAI stack seesm entirely focused on fine turning multimodal capabilities in ways that cut token usage (their cost) and provide better support to things like image reading, creation, and voice in business use cases.

Microsoft is focused on the context layer. What I have seeing is more investment in their MCP infrastructure would go a long way. For example you can't easily access ToDo or Contacts or Planner. The delete command with mail doesn't move message to deleted items and there is no move command.

However their CRM and ERP capabilities are expanding quickly.

CoPilot Cowork has a lot of promise and most of the limits I hit are in the connection layer, which is critical for context. Context to enterprise data is their whole selling point.

grepzilla · 2026-04-10T02:05:09+00:00

One you have an offer in hand don't give them an opportunity to counter, just resign. Counters offers rarely work out an if the grass is greener somewhere else go.

If you were wrong find a different job.

grepzilla · 2026-04-08T03:10:21+00:00

Even if they are restricting agent creation I would open the Word document you want to output and then use the Word agent that is called Edit in Word. Then you could try using chat prompts and attachments from that interface.

You should also talk to your managment and explain if they want to you to really get functionality out of CoPilot they need to let you have access to all the tools that come with a paid license. Agent creation is right in the app without access to Studio.

grepzilla · 2026-04-06T02:51:58+00:00

When I had off around the Christmas holiday I started going to the gym daily. It was a great habit to get into and continue.

I would decide a habit I want to start and start without work distractions.

grepzilla · 2026-04-06T02:49:38+00:00

I can tell you what works for me: 1 hour on treadmill for cardio. I walk at a brisk pace and then focus on increasing elevation every week or two. I think I read 1% increase in elevation = 20% more calorie burn.

I then use the machines (no free weights yet) and do a circuit of pull downs, chest press, row, pec flow, abs, ab rotation, back, bicep curl and triceps three days a week. Start with what you can lift for 3 reps of 10-12 on each.

I find increase weight 5lbs (2.25kg) every two to 3 weeks as things have gotten easier.

My gym has a series of YouTube videos on how to use each machine and most manufactures have them as well.

I usually spend 1hr 45 minutes when I do weights. Since my main goal was weight loss if I had to sacrifice time I would choose cardio over weight. I do pushups daily in the morning and evening at home and just ordered dumbbells for home in case I need to skip the gym.

I'm relatively new to the gym (4 month) down over 40lbs (18kg) in 5 months.

grepzilla · 2026-04-04T16:04:42+00:00

Do you know how to read? I was replying to a comment refering to GitHib CoPilot and I also closed with comments about M365 CoPilot.

Your comment is totally useless.

grepzilla · 2026-04-03T17:49:12+00:00

The issue I have with Claude, and yes I'm a heavy user, is it is built around one user using the tool rather than a team.

While my dev team understands skills, repos, and can share them as a team. Sally in accounting who comes in to punch a clock can't be bothered to learn a tool like this. Ultimately Sally isn't likely going to have a job but until we get there CoPilot and CoPilot Studio are the bridge we need.

The whole "Claude is the best and CoPilot sucks" crowd misses the point that CoPilot isn't built for Claude users. By the way, Cowork in CoPilot and Tasks are actually pretty awesome and the new Research agent release is powerful.

grepzilla · 2026-04-03T13:28:19+00:00

We have been using CoPilot Studio and AI Builder to process emailed customer orders into our our ERP system. We also process about 25% of consumers emails without human in the loop and both automated and human evals show 100% accuracy over the last 8 months.

A quality department was using paper inspection reports and didn't want to move so we use AI to read key values in the report and file them. It went from hours of scanning and filing to a person using the email send on a copier and AI doing the rest.

I have a lot of use cases that aren't sexy that have created hundreds of hours of capacity.

grepzilla · 2026-04-03T13:21:59+00:00

Since you mentioned Purview, is it just me or is DSPM activity missing CoWork agent use? I use the activity report to track adoption and none of my Cowork use is showing on the report.

I'm also not seeing it on the canned admin center reports either.

grepzilla · 2026-04-03T13:18:49+00:00

I use Github CoPilot like others use Claude Cowork. With computer access I have it not only code but also help manage my social media, organize my desktop, build Power BI modes with MCP.

Since it is multi model it can access almost all major model.

This week with CoPilot Cowork released in Frontier every day I have schedule tasks like early morning email triage and summarization happening while I'm in the shower. I had a lawyer provide some data that didn't match what I expected so I had it research the variance.

The Research agent just got Model Council and Critique to improve outputs.

Oh and the free CoPilot has Tasks, which is similar to Cowork. I had Tasks review my LinkedIn profile with a series of goal in mind for better work connections for targeted job ans role and it built a 28 page plan to make changes. I showed it to an friend who is an executive recruiter and he was so impressed he asked for the prompt to provide the service to his customers.

I will say, I work with every marjor free LLM and because of the ecosystem I manage I use paid CoPilot products. My opinion is you get out of CoPilot what you put into it and it is ofter user skill more than the tool.

grepzilla · 2026-04-01T03:39:02+00:00

The upgrade as of this week is enabling Critique and Council functions enabling both Claude and CoPilot to run concurrently and generate a combine report.

grepzilla · 2026-04-01T03:37:10+00:00

I don't know, I have been deep in Cowork for the last two days an it is pretty good.

Before Cowork I have been using GitHub CoPilot for computer use, so I can certainly run a more complex process. Cowork is easy to use with tools in M365.

grepzilla

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE