What Emanuele Bartolesi thinks about Microsoft

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Italian software architect working on Microsoft 365, Azure and GitHub tooling. Microsoft MVP and GitHub Star; writes, speaks and streams about developer productivity at emanuelebartolesi.com.

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1. 1 Apr 2026

   Our readingTuning an AI coding assistant to always agree and avoid criticism produces weaker suggestions and lets bad decisions slip through unnoticed.

   Their wordsBy default, Copilot tries to agree, avoid criticism, and keep answers "safe". That sounds good, but in practice it leads to weak suggestions, missed problems, and bad decisions slipping through.

   ↗GitHub Copilot Is Too Nice. Fix It With a Tone of Voice File.emanuelebartolesi.com 1st of 2 in this piece

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3. 17 Feb 2026

   Our readingAI coding assistants remove repetitive work without replacing human judgment.

   Their wordsCopilot is not replacing judgment. It removes repetitive formatting work.

   ↗GitHub Copilot to Generate Conventional Commit Messages in VSCode and JetBrains Rideremanuelebartolesi.com 2nd of 2 in this piece