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What I do fear is that for those that do heavily invest, they’ll be required by the likes of Microsoft to begin to speak in ways that Copilot can parse and ‘understand’.

We have those things, they’re called programming languages and they have well-specified syntax (and, often, semantics). Unfortunately, the shape of what an LLM can parse depends on its architecture and training data, and fairly small changes to either can have a big impact. Copilot seems to be a roll in release thing, where the underlying models can be changed at will. Just because you have created a shape that Copilot can parse today does not mean that it will work tomorrow.

We are going to see many organisations rediscovering ontology drift. My favourite thing about ontology drift is that it’s recursive: everyone who rediscovers it comes up with incompatible terminology for it and cannot share their findings in a useful way.