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A lot of snark in these comments. Has anyone actually tried it yet?

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The repo is full of big AI words without any metrics/benchmark.

People are correct to question it.

If anything, Microsoft needs to show something meaningful to make people believe it's worth trying it out.

I’m not blaming them. I’m asking if anyone has tried it.

Why didn't you try?

Time? I’m on a discussion forum. Just wondering if anyone actually tried it out. Not that big a deal

I’ve seen people discuss these types of approaches on X. To me it looks like the concepts here are already tried and popular - they’re just packaging it up so that people who aren’t as deep in that world can get the same benefits. But I’m not an expert.

Exactly. I don’t understand the cynicism in the comments and they literally are just trying to make the technology more accessible

That's a very altruistic outlook on Microsoft's intent with getting everyone to use and depend on AI.

Microsoft is on a roll, on a roll at repackaging open source efforts and branding them, and then saying they made it.

Isn’t that what every company that sells technology does—build demos and showcase uses in order to provoke the imagination and motivate sales? No company is perfect, but what Microsoft is doing here is hardly unusual.

I mean this in the best possible way, but I don't think you're using "altruistic" correctly. Altruism is "showing a selfless concern for the well-being of others." I think you're looking for "naive," and Microsoft is some combination of cynical and manipulative.

Good point, thanks! I meant to say that they were taking an outlook that cast Microsoft's intentions as altruistic when (in my view) the intentions are more along the lines of cynical and manipulative, as you said.

Claude Code is great, this is just a set of tweaks, not really "research". For anyone into vibe coding, there are dozens of interesting video tutorials on customizing Claude Code and running practical jobs, not limited to coding.

I think most of us are irritated by the constant A/B Testing and underwhelming releases. Lets just have the bubble pop so we can solve real problems instead of this.

Hehe suddenly many people will have the real problem of paying bills unfortunately

They will, especially when it comes to paying back the VCs all the burnt GenAI-dollars

I thought VCs were investors.

Generally when your investment fails you don’t get paid back, right?

Where were you in 2008?

Not in the workforce yet

I'm super confused how anyone can actually afford to pay per token for llms to actually do dev.

I tried it with a feature, took about 10 minutes and a lot of iterations, and would easily have used hundreds of thousands of tokens. Doing this 20, 30 times a day would be crazy expensive.

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