News Clippy resurrected as AI assistant — project turns infamous Microsoft mascot into LLM interface

[Admin]

New “software art” piece brings Clippy back to your desktop, serving up locally installed LLMs from the mouth of a paperclip.

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[Neilbob]

One of the first things I did every time I was let loose on a computer, even if it wasn't mine, was to disable Clippy.

Wonderful halcyon times.

 

[SSGBryan]

Ok, this is funny, and I might just have to download this........

 

[Giroro]

So the question is:
Is Microsoft aware that everybody hates both Clippy and Copilot , and are laughing (at our expense) while combining as a defiant middle finger to their customers..

Or does Microsoft have employees so completely up their own CULTure that they legitimately think people want either of these things?

Either way HOW IN 5 YEARS HAVE THEY STILL NOT FIGURED OUT HOW TO LET WINDOWS 11 MOVE THE TASK BAR, OR EVEN SPEED UP ANIMATIONS WITHOUT A REGISTRY HACK?
Clearly they must have a lot of bored devs with literally nothing better to do, so how about put them to work rolling back all their covid-era design mistakes?

Stupid, time wasting jokes are only cute when you're not sitting on an apparently-untouched backlog of critical bugs, security holes, and missing features.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

So the question is:
Is Microsoft aware that everybody hates both Clippy and Copilot , and are laughing (at our expense) while combining as a defiant middle finger to their customers..

Or does Microsoft have employees so completely up their own CULTure that they legitimately think people want either of these things?

Either way HOW IN 5 YEARS HAVE THEY STILL NOT FIGURED OUT HOW TO LET WINDOWS 11 MOVE THE TASK BAR, OR EVEN SPEED UP ANIMATIONS WITHOUT A REGISTRY HACK?
Clearly they must have a lot of bored devs with literally nothing better to do, so how about put them to work rolling back all their covid-era design mistakes?

Stupid, time wasting jokes are only cute when you're not sitting on an apparently-untouched backlog of critical bugs, security holes, and missing features.

It's mostly their PM culture that's a huge problem along with middle management. They're driven by KPI's & self aggrandizing cultures to get promotions. Instead of listening to customers.

I say that as a Ex-MS employee who saw how the sausage was made in the inside.

 

[fireaza]

I remember an old meme (though, they weren't called "memes" back then) that purported to show a "secret" Windows settings menu. One of them was:
"Annoy me with that sodding paperclip:"
"Constantly"
"When I least expect it"