I can’t get over how bad “Rovo” is. Somehow more aggressive and useless than Microsoft putting “Copilot” everywhere.
It’s objectively worse than using something like Cowork + MCP, AND they injected it into every single page on JIRA and Confluent which has made web browsing way slower while all the junk is loading.
Rovo has my favorite example of AI misfeature. Just checked, it's still there in Cloud Confluence. In Edit mode for a page, you can select a range of text and a menu will pop up, with Ask Rovo being a drop down on it. There's a few good options... Improve Formatting, translation options, Make Shorter...
... but it also has Make Longer. Yes, a built-in feature to type some text in, and the use the mighty power of AI to bloat it.
Naturally, you can repeat this process several times on the same text, for your own little personal demonstration of what model collapse looks like in real time.
Don't worry, you can use Rovo to summarize the document! That way you can get the information your coworker wanted to share but filtered through a game of teLLMephone.
We’ve gone from proof-of-work to proof-of-no-work.
I've tried the "Make Longer" and "Make Shorter".
When you go "Make longer" the text gets longer.
When you go "Make shorter", the text gets longer still.
You'd think that the original text would be the oracle for shorter(longer(original))?
> You'd think
I'm going to have to stop you right there
What's even worse is that, when you do this on the description of a story or task, everytime it comes up with a slightly different format of how it's going to layout the "enhanced" description.
>I can’t get over how bad “Rovo” is. Somehow more aggressive and useless than Microsoft putting “Copilot” everywhere.
You're looking at it the wrong way. Think about how much better it is than the joke of a search tool that's slightly to the left of it's icon.
Have you seen the markdown agent instructions they provide in their new agentic `twg` cli? 70k tokens one average, there are more than one...
Rovo is the worse Ai I have used, I suggested they stop trying and let us have model choice. Save money and don't do things out of their skill sets