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Microsoft has over a million paying GitHub Copilot users

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We also use it for all devs but I'm thinking of cancelling. The bugs it introduced that were too easy to glance over cost us more time in total than it really saves us imho.

That's like $10M monthly recurring revenue. Easily enough to pay for a 100 person team working on the product. Good job, I'd say.

I expect compute is a non-trivial amount of the cost, at least compared to salaries.

Unless of course you just get those 100 people to watch what people are typing and really quickly write their own suggestions.

Do things that don't scale!

Except it's reportedly run at heavy losses atm https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/11/github_ai_copilot_mic...

Yeah my guess is that $120 million revenue is likely breakeven at this point, probably being run over by salaries and even more compute / GPU / hardware costs to run this expensive LLM service.

Nat Friedman doesn't seem to confirm that https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1712140497127342404

I've been a paying user for a while now and the chat feature has become slower and slower. It takes up to a minute now for it to reply which is too long for a productive back and forth.

Since I’ve cancelled my GHCoPilot subscription, I do find myself waiting for the autocomplete to pop up! Realizing how much of my brain I outsourced to this “feature”.

I now prefer co-developing with Azure/OpenAI because I can learn as I go. To me, with GHCoPilot, I had to know enough of the language I was working with to trust the code it produced.

Now I can ask “Break down these functions into the smallest unit/explain XYZ to be as if I was a novice” and SO many other questions.

To me, working with GPT4 is way better than working with CoPilot.

What do you mean Azure/OpenAI, is that a Azure product for ide? Or are you referring to ChatGPT Plus?

I clearly recall MSFT lying directly about sales numbers in competitive markets, on camera, in print, on web pages, here in California.

What happened then, because as a public company that's fraud

it probably wasn't a full throated lie. there are so many ways to mislead without lying when it comes to financials. like quietly lumping in your MS office subscriptions into your Azure web services numbers.

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