Agent Dudecast EP9 James Oleinik

Yep.

So the, you know, the quote-unquote Super App is, uh, a re-reimagining of Microsoft Copilot.

Um, and, uh, I think you had...

I think Jared Spataro had a great blog post around this, uh, just a couple weeks ago, and it's gonna be a big part of kind of some of the announcements over the next couple months.

But really, what, what the goal of kind of like the Super App kind of vision is, is really a single, single app for kind of how you leverage AI that's built for kind of your work, right? And so there was a couple different things that came together as a part of this announcement.

So number one, there was kind of actually a, a merger of kind of what today, if you come to Copilot, you can either kind of chat with Copilot, which is, it's kind of a, usually it's a modality.

It's a little bit more about discussion and kind of like explor- exploring.

And then, or you could switch into kind of the cowork mode, which is where you essentially go, you know, delegated a task that could be long-running for it to go do something.

So kind of like the first kind of key thing, uh, about kind of this Copilot announcement is like there's kind of a merger of those two things into kind of one, one experience that's all about kind of like, hey, you can either have the same kind of thread, have a conversation, or kind of delegate some long-running work.

That was the, the first part of it.

The second part of it was the introduction of, uh, what they call the new, uh, home experience, [lips smack] which is all about kind of bringing Office, uh, into kind of the Copilot app in a first-class way.

So that's a lot of your like creation of kind of like spreadsheets, documents, kind of presentations, kind of, and that's kind of has a more native tab within the Copilot experience.

And so those are a lot of like what was already out there, but it just kind of brought those more together in a first-class way.

But then-

Yeah, so kind of-

Yeah

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so is that kind of what we've seen in the industry where a lot of these like all these different chat things are all coming into one app? Like I, I, I've noticed like Anthropic seems to be doing sort of the same kind of concept.

Um, this is just Microsoft bringing it all together is what I'm hearing and, and making it where it's more cohesive as a user, right?

Yeah.

If you, if you have, have Claude installed, you see that like you can kind of, when you go and create a new conversation, you can either ch- enable chat or cowork.

That's kind of synonymous k- with, uh, kind of what we talked about there.

Or, um, c- you know, ChatGPT is doing the same thing with their, their Codex app, and I'll talk about that a little bit, where they brought together kind of even the coding paradigm together with the more kind of productivity flows.

And in, in that regard, there's gonna be a new newcomer into the Copilot app called Copilot Code.

And that is all about the ability to allow people that aren't necessarily professional developers to be able to build solutions directly within Copilot.