I wish I was joking. I am not.
One of our test systems has been down all day. Folks are losing their minds. So I'm on the call where they are trying to figure it out and it seems an AI security tool deleted a bunch of stuff. And didn't leave logs. At least not apparent ones.
"Sorry for the duplicate meeting invite. I used copilot for the first one, and it missed a bunch of people. It won't let me delete the first one."
I feel annoyed when coworkers start a teams chat with "you in the office today?" because 1. my calendar is up to date. If it actually mattered, they could just check. And 2. We have all these digital collab tools and 90% of my company isn't in the same office building so it really shouldn't matter. I've yet to run into the problem we couldn't solve with a screen share and a phone call.
But it occurred to me today that 9 times out of 10 this question is probably just someone fishing for an excuse to procrastinate.
Sometime today an important project at work is 🚨 changing colors🚨 Blame will be laid on *broadly gestures* "us." Perhaps more specifically as the leader: Me. It's inaccurate, I'm not aligned to it. I REALLY want to be defensive but I won't b/c it doesn't work.
Sure wish @kairyssdal was active here. He'd get a kick out of this. I'm writing an opening statement w/ Fed chair Jerome Powell in mind: Fact driven, boring, informative, not alarmist.
I've been told to get the premium version of Copilot at work. OK fine whatever. So as I fill out the form I have to check a bunch of boxes that say I'll crosscheck any results and I agree not to trust it with important work and bla bla bla.
WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?!?!
I'm still 🤯 at a meeting I had with the boss of my boss last week. She told me we're breaking down silos between business units, and not 2 minutes later told me there isn't an appetite to combine the same meetings with similar folks doing the same sort of work across sister business units.
I have been using Outlook for literal decades. Microsoft has managed to botch #NewOutlook so bad, that I'm now at the stage of not trusting it will do anything I want it to. I canceled a meeting series last week. It's back. I canceled it again today, and now folks are somehow ACCEPTING the cancellation? 30% AI code, indeed. Make it make sense! (This is at work, I have no choice)
JL Johnson 
Brian Davis