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Better Offline. And welcome to the business idiot trilogy what that means will soon become obvious so on may

15th bloomberg profile Microsoft CEO satchin adela revealing that on some level

satchin adela is kind of a fucking idiot. The article revealed that, assuming we believe him

and this wasn't a thinly veiled ad for Microsoft's AI, the co-pilot consumes Nadello's life outside the

office as well as at work. He likes podcasts, but instead of listening to them, like with his ears,

he loads transcripts into the co-pilot app on his phone so that he can chat with the

voice assistant about the

content of an episode in the car as he commutes to Redmond. At the office, he relies on co-pilot

to deliver summaries of messages he receives in Outlook and Teams and toggles among, allegedly,

at least 10 custom agents from Copilot Studio. Now, the article does not say what they do, doesn't seem like they

bothered to ask, but he allegedly views them as his AI chiefs of staff, delegating meeting

prep, research, and other tasks, again, unnamed to the bots. And to quote Sachin Adela in this

article, he says, I'm an email typist, and he jokes about this, noting that co-pilot is thankfully

very good at triaging his messages. None of these tasks are things that require you to use AI.

You can read your messages on Outlook and teams without having them summarized, and I'd argue that a

well-written email is one that doesn't require a summary. Podcasts are not there to be

chatted to or about with an AI. Preparing for meetings isn't something that requires AI, nor is

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