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Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
I used to think "Teams can't be that bad" and then I had to use it for work. It's astonishingly bad. I'm not sure if it's just how they use it at this place, but it's bad.
Everything is a chat. There's no channels. So nothing is discoverable, and if you sort of remember a conversation you have to see if it was in the standup chat, in the planning chat, in a ad hoc chat...
There's no threads. So if you have a chat for say release-123, and someone says "Feature 1 has a bug" and someone else says "Feature-2 has a bug", you can't isolate them in separate threads. It's all flat so they smash into each other.
It's a good example of why no one ever tried to build an 'everything' app. It just doesn't work, and there are so many terrible design decisions, like having multiple places you have to go to manage settings, where most apps have only one.
Every time I have to start a new chat it takes me 10 minutes to figure out how to do it. The Teams UI is positively hostile.