7/5/2026 at 10:13:07 PM
If AI is so great, these price rises will pay for themselves many times over.....Have any HNer's experienced or observed any productivity increases, or even any utility increases from co pilot?
by chairmansteve
7/6/2026 at 12:42:41 AM
Had a clueless business analyst get Copilot to write a bunch of stories for an epic, then when she had a meeting with me (and three other people!) to go through the stories I had to tell them that 90% of what they had done was wrong.If they'd come to me from the outset I could have told them the one story title and handful of acceptance criteria that was required but instead we wasted 5 person hours and whatever Copilot costs.
by jamesfinlayson
7/6/2026 at 1:20:57 AM
Without context it reads like you work in a publisher that publishes fiction...by netsharc
7/6/2026 at 2:00:45 AM
I thought the same. Business lingo has really jumped the shark. "story" is already stupid enough, but "epic"? Seriously? :-Dby spacechild1
7/6/2026 at 2:05:01 AM
I assumed this was standard terminology for Jira? It's been the same for me at two completely different tech companies.by jamesfinlayson
7/6/2026 at 2:13:59 AM
It might be standard terminology but to outsiders like me it sounds like an over-the-top parody of corporate speak.by spacechild1
7/6/2026 at 3:29:40 AM
I always hoped we could make "cinematic universe" for really enormous refactorings.by hakfoo
7/6/2026 at 3:42:38 AM
I don't disagree - I worked on a task management system many years ago and task and subtask always made a lot more sense than story and task. And epic should just be project.by jamesfinlayson
7/6/2026 at 5:30:33 AM
It's the brittle systems that try and force a peg in a hole regardless of size or shape.I've worked with customers who stories worked well because the concept is just to talk through use-cases. Others have been involved in building software previously and it's overkill.
Current corpo job uses the phrase stories, but refuses to get involved with any planning or spec building so task and subtask would make more sense, but subtasks aren't visible on the board and we aren't allowed to update it.
We also aren't allowed to move a task back, so every time someone accidentally moves the wrong task we have to cancel it and recreate it. Such a pain.
by happymellon
7/6/2026 at 3:08:20 AM
[dead]by mlvljr
7/5/2026 at 11:53:44 PM
Probably worse productivity because now I have to read paragraphs of emails that could have been sentences.by itchingsphynx
7/6/2026 at 11:26:50 AM
It’s pure gold for contractors trying to snow clients. The people who used to struggle to produce a good looking document can now quickly produce something without visible tells that they have no idea what they’re talking about, even though they still have no idea.by acdha
7/5/2026 at 10:45:55 PM
We've lost customers over the increased price.by bigbuppo
7/6/2026 at 1:35:22 AM
Copilot actually can search outlook emails on Mac. This is the greatest achievement of any AI.by bombcar
7/6/2026 at 5:51:13 AM
Sarcasm? The new Mac outlook also stores each email as a separate plain text tarball of HTML. It’s the greatest unintentional Microsoft feature ever because you can finally read all your email however you pleaseby fingerlocks
7/6/2026 at 4:40:23 AM
They do increase RAM and processor usage.by hulitu