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Microsoft just announced two new Office features:
• Agent Mode in Excel/Word to auto-generate or check content, and
• Office Agent (Anthropic-powered) to spin up slides/docs from Copilot chat.
Honestly shocked these weren’t already there, feels like the most obvious Office + GenAI combo.
• Agent Mode in Excel/Word to auto-generate or check content, and
• Office Agent (Anthropic-powered) to spin up slides/docs from Copilot chat.
Honestly shocked these weren’t already there, feels like the most obvious Office + GenAI combo.
Vibe working: Introducing Agent Mode and Office Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot | Microsoft 365 Blog
Microsoft Copilot introduces Agent Mode in Office apps, enabling smarter document creation, analysis, and collaboration across Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
www.microsoft.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Microsoft just announced two new Office features:
• Agent Mode in Excel/Word to auto-generate or check content, and
• Office Agent (Anthropic-powered) to spin up slides/docs from Copilot chat.
Honestly shocked these weren’t already there, feels like the most obvious Office + GenAI combo.
• Agent Mode in Excel/Word to auto-generate or check content, and
• Office Agent (Anthropic-powered) to spin up slides/docs from Copilot chat.
Honestly shocked these weren’t already there, feels like the most obvious Office + GenAI combo.
AI still can't spreadsheet
August 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
AI still can't spreadsheet
Just going to say it. “Thinking/reasoning” models are horrible at many everyday coding tasks. Try-hard, overthinking, returning 100+ line snippets for something that should be 3 line answer.
August 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Just going to say it. “Thinking/reasoning” models are horrible at many everyday coding tasks. Try-hard, overthinking, returning 100+ line snippets for something that should be 3 line answer.
Introducing GPT-5.
Q: How many b's in blueberry?
GPT-5: The word "blueberry" has 3 b's --- one at the start, one in the middle, and one in the berry part.
Q: How many b's in blueberry?
GPT-5: The word "blueberry" has 3 b's --- one at the start, one in the middle, and one in the berry part.
August 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Introducing GPT-5.
Q: How many b's in blueberry?
GPT-5: The word "blueberry" has 3 b's --- one at the start, one in the middle, and one in the berry part.
Q: How many b's in blueberry?
GPT-5: The word "blueberry" has 3 b's --- one at the start, one in the middle, and one in the berry part.
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For any devs wondering what 18F does (did), here’s its GitHub org page, with 1,210 repos. A few were mine! All the work they did for all their agency partners was open source. Public money should produce public software, for public inspection.
Those days are over, starting today.
Those days are over, starting today.
18F
18F builds effective, user-centric digital services focused on the interaction between government & the people it serves. Provided by GSA. - 18F
github.com
March 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
For any devs wondering what 18F does (did), here’s its GitHub org page, with 1,210 repos. A few were mine! All the work they did for all their agency partners was open source. Public money should produce public software, for public inspection.
Those days are over, starting today.
Those days are over, starting today.
Why we’re not even close to scratching the surface of what AI can do that economically useful.
blog.ninlabs.com/blog/2025-01...
blog.ninlabs.com/blog/2025-01...
AI and Two Hundred Dollar Tasks | NINlabs
In 2013, inspired by GitHub's octocat, I too wanted a mascot. It wasn't something I exactly needed, but I thought would be interesting to have...
blog.ninlabs.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Why we’re not even close to scratching the surface of what AI can do that economically useful.
blog.ninlabs.com/blog/2025-01...
blog.ninlabs.com/blog/2025-01...