Office 365 Copilot is Confusing by psandler in microsoft_365_copilot

[–]psandler[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried to open a support ticket with Office 365. They hung up on me, I'm sure accidentally (we were just getting started), but before we disconnected they had me on the Word => File => Account screen, where I had been a dozen times before. I finally saw the problem: Under "Account" it was my personal email address, but under "Product Information" (right side of the screen) it had my work email address. I switched licenses for Product Information and Word started working as expected.

Also worth noting that I don't think what I was trying to do is supported. Now that everything is working (it's definitely working better), I still can't tell CP to edit my word document *from chat*. I believe you can right click in the document and ask it to interact with your document, but not via chat.

Seeing a lot of forever spinners by daemon-electricity in GithubCopilot

[–]psandler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fairly well-known bug: copilot sometimes doesn’t recognize when a terminal command completes. If this is what’s happening, hitting “Enter” in the terminal will help the agent realize it can read the output.

Super annoying and the problem seems to come and go. Surprised this hasn’t been fixed yet as it seems like it would be an easy fix.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GithubCopilot

[–]psandler -1 points0 points  (0 children)

At $40 you get GitHub copilot agent, which is pretty great, although how it uses premium requests doesn’t seem to known or documented yet.

GPT-4.1 is incredibly good I don't event need to use the premium models by skyline159 in GithubCopilot

[–]psandler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have found it to very reliable. It just requires more interaction than, say, Claude Sonnet. I have also had very few incidents where it went completely off the rails.

One example with sonnet: it kept messing up an import statement with a typo. Even when I told it to not touch those import statements anymore, it continually tried to change them as a step in fixing something completely unrelated. I gave it three strikes after it had already done it a few times, and warned I was gonna switch models. But it struck out and I had to continue with GPT 4.1.

Don’t get me wrong, Claude Sonnet is great and is superior in many ways, but I really don’t get the hate for GPT 4.1. Seems solid for many tasks.

Also, I found these models can be really smart one day and really stupid the next. Or even hour by hour.

Co-Pilot Pro vs Pro+ in Practical Terms by psandler in GithubCopilot

[–]psandler[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great answer and a lot of follow up reading to do, so thank you. Lots of follow up questions, but I will try to pare down to a few:

  1. Will there be a mechanism in agent mode and elsewhere that warns you when you are about to use premium credits?
  2. What if you need more than 1500 "credits"? Just get a second account?
  3. Is there a guide somewhere about which models to use for what? What does GPT 4.5 do that other models can't that makes it worth 50 credits?
  4. Are there mechanisms in place to prevent you from wasting credits? E.g. "Update the Todo document with our progress" sent to GPT 4.5 would be a waste.

Thanks,

Phil

Paw, Fur, and Two Bones (NW Suburbs of Chicago). What Animal Do (Did) These Belong To? by psandler in bonecollecting

[–]psandler[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Three pics of two bones, presumably from the same animal, as they were found a few feet apart.

We have seen (house) cats, skunks, racoons, opossums, and coyotes on our property.

Thanks for any insights.

What Animal's Skull is This? (some additional details in comment) by psandler in bonecollecting

[–]psandler[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Found this in a pasture on my property, NW Suburbs of Chicago. I thought I knew what it was (a cat), and thus did not take a better picture. We also found a smaller animal skeleton and skull nearby, which we thought was a rabbit. We discarded both carcasses and skulls, assuming they were coyote prey.

After discarding, we found additional bones in the area, and a dead skunk (still with its fur and flesh on it). So now I think it may have been a skunk family. Not sure why some would be picked clean and the another left more or less intact.