The productivity benefits are worth more than $10/month easily, but somehow I still don't want to pay for it... maybe it's because they're using public domain code to train the model.
This includes a lot of code under copyleft licenses, and possibly even more code under no license at all (implicitly All Rights Reserved). It's not obvious to me that it's ethical (or possibly even legal) to sell a model derived from code not in the public domain.
(I think those cases would be mostly full lines that I know exist on other files in the project - but I don't want to go there, copy and paste if I can avoid it..)
Copilot clearly cost money to run, so it couldn't be given away forever. By putting a business model on it, it means it's less likely to be rugpulled in the future.
Are the productivity benefits worth more than $10/month?
Now, if they are paid per job and it makes them more productive... That's different.
If you just get the solution the learning gets smaller.
I’ve been trailing the beta for the past few months and plan to recommend a corporate account to our leadership once it becomes available.
The calculus is $10 for a pizza or something for myself, or copilot.
Given that copilot has saved me too many hours to count, i.e. the 1 thing that truly matters, then it's a no-brainer.
Let's be on a more conservative end and say that an engineer gets paid $60/hour (i know that most engineers are salaried, so you will need to divide the monthly pay number pre-tax by 160 hours to get that hourly number). If copilot saved more than 10 minutes of your time a month, then yeah, it is worth more than $10/mo.
Do the math on this one yourself, based on how many hours you work in a month on average + your compensation for that time period.
You don’t need backcraft some moral argument. It’s trivial to see that a large amount of creativity went into developing the system, it’s not just a repackaging of public domain works.
It’s the poorest of craftsmen who blames their tools. Rise above.
Also, note that simply accessing an online service does not constitute a distribution of software, and thus does not fall under GPL's domain. And "derivative" appears nowhere in the GPL.
I don’t care about getting a discount, just dislike being billed on two different billing cycles and it seems like a missed opportunity for them to get more devs on their paid tier.
Do you also consider it ethically questionable to look up oublic domain code on for inspiration (like on StackOverflow) while being paid $20,000/month?
Because I certainly do that plenty. I think most of us do