Ladies and Gentlemen... this is your copilot speaking - busting out of the code closet and sashaying right through your working day.
Seems to me the big win in technology is in the moment we forget it's there. Like electricity... or digital... you use it in your daily work but it's so ingrained you never need to stop and think about it being there, you just get on with the job.It looks like MS Copilot is a leap toward that state - we'll know a little better when the roll-out starts on September 26 - part of a free update to windows 11 (seamless is rarely a word I would use with a windows update, but let's see).
MS says: " It will work as an app or reveal itself when you need it with a right click. We will continue to add capabilities and connections to Copilot across to our most-used applications over time in service of our vision to have one experience that works across your whole life."
The critical and rarely discussed part in this is the experience. And it goes beyond UI or UX. To pull off a *seamless* experience requires deep embedding in the software, indeed across the tech stack.
I had an interesting conversation with folk at Cognizant recently who believe this need to know software engineering, tech stack, and UI/UX, places firms like theirs in the driving seat as the race to seamless #genai sets off.
I've always said ease of use trumps technical capability every time. But the winners tend to have both, in spades.
