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> BRB buying some MSFT

No.

Tell me you buy the hype and on high impact macro-economic news like FOMC and lose more money due to volatility without telling me.

Almost everyone here knew GPT-4 will release soon, months ago in advance and you now decide to 'buy' MSFT as soon as it goes up to $277?

The market really does get retail FOMO'ing in stocks with the hype and it just never ceases to surprise me that it happens here too.

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This "tell me X without telling me" meme is, frankly, quite snarky and unnecessary.

It’s such a bummer that it started as a joke confessional TikTok meme and became a bitter forum reply meme.

I think you have a valid point or two, but I think you’re not grasping how much enterprises will be throwing money at MSFT.

GitHub is already give or take a billion dollar business, and Microsoft is orders of magnitude bigger than that. This will be a nice little sideline for someone but it’s at least as valuable for mindshare as revenue.

Based on my own productivity, and how strong the tools seem to be, then I presume current increase in the value is still too very low. These tools would eventually reduce workforce costs by 90% at the very least in my view. To me it seems like most people don't truly understand how things are going to change now.

Maybe when they become much much more sophisticated. Right now they reduce time spent write boilerplate and looking at docs. How much of you overall time is spent on those tasks now? For most devs its not much. Significant time is spent reading code to understand program architecture, investigating bugs caused by obscure edge cases, refactoring or extending functionality without breaking everything. Copilot doesn't even scratch the surface of those yet.

It can find bugs, suggest fixes, write tests and do PRs.

I am very certain it has 5x my productivity already. But I have been practicing and using it pretty much 24/7 and as well on weekends. I think in 6 months it is so for everyone in very many fields.

It also helps me understand new codebases in languages that I am not familiar with.

In addition it is good for refactoring and can spot bugs.

I use combination of chatgpt in editor and copilot. And I have ChatGPT one shortkey away as an os app.

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