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Software engineers at Microsoft are now expected to use both Claude Code and GitHub Copilot and give feedback comparing the two, I’m told. Microsoft sells GitHub Copilot as its AI coding tool of choice to its customers, but if these broad internal pilot programs are successful, then it’s possible the company could even eventually sell Claude Code directly to its cloud customers.

Guys? Are we going to have to rename Microsoft products from Copilot to Claude soon?

Microsoft Claude 365?

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 73 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Microsoft is killing itself with shit vibe code.

[–] DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] 123@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Micracoslop

[–] Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 week ago

Microslop cope-pilot

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Good. Let's accelerate the transition to TempleOS.

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 1 week ago (5 children)

We got copilot reviewing our code at work

It mostly just finds typos and other things like that

Quite useless at anything else

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

My girlfriend is forced to use only Copilot at her work, and its just completely useless. She frequently posts me failed tasks it couldnt do. :).

Seems to be the worst Ai by far.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

GitHub copilot within visual studio is not bad actually, if it doesn't find anything to but typos then congrats your team is all competent senior developers...

It does cut down review time for juniors' work, and it's capable of implementing full features given the correct documentation and instructions. It's a useful tool that assists and doesn't replace competent developers.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Its only core competency is convincing idiot c-suites that they should force their org to use copilot

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[–] MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Like intelisence which has been doing it faster, more consistantly and offline since the mid 2000's?

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[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Klopilot - I'm sorry I think this only works in German

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Welllll

WC stands for Water Closet and I think Klo is short for Klosett?

The brits also call it the 'loo' which doesn't sound too far off from 'Klo' I think

So it's not actually that hard to infer what it means

To be fair I did take like 6 years of Deutsch in die Schule, aber ich habe alles vergessen + I'm not entirely sure we ever learned the word "Klo". Maybe we did.

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[–] lmr0x61@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think Microsoft, as they often do, see the writing on the wall—the AI bubble bursting soon, taking AI-only businesses with them. What I see in this is a play to, at best, buy some extra good will with Anthropic so they can be first in line for the acquisition when the latter are tanking, or at worst (and more likely imo), get them dependent on Microsoft for revenue so that they have no other choice to be subsumed by them.

But I’ve been wrong about most economic/political predictions I’ve ever made, so we’ll see!

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago (4 children)

If there's any company that will survive the bubble, it's Anthropic. They're the only company with a product, a business model, and customers that see long-term value in it.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 6 points 1 week ago

This is true. But remember that Microsoft has an incomprehensible amount of money and if the bubble bursts Anthropic may survive but not at the same value.

[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I doubt Google couldn't easily kill Anthropic by expanding their Antigravity project.

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Antigravity is only rarely useful in software development.

[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The same could be repeated verbatim for any other AI agent.

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[–] jaxxed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Their product may be one of the best, but they are more expensive, and they have no hope of making enough revenue to float their business.

MS and Google float their AI with their other profits, so it can work as a business model.

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[–] ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

They are tiiny and losing money by the skip full.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago

Like a virus you say?

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Copilot sucks, that is all

[–] mrnobody@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You do realize its ChatGPT underneath, yes?

I chuckle and die a little when the CGPT bois trash Copilot, but lie, when it was nonprofit MS was funding a lot of the research so that's their backend.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Squizzy didn't come off as a "ChatGPT boi." What are you on about?

[–] mrnobody@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago

I wasn't meaning they are specifically, just pointing out how fanbois are. Thats why I dropped to another paragraph. Sorry

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[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Great paywall. I guess I'm not reading this article.

And then La Verge will wonder why it can't keep readers on their website.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I didnt get a paywall myself actually. Mobile Firefox with ublock origin.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No paywall on Firefox desktop either with ublock origin either.

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Other readers- archive.is link - completely readable

[–] Renorc@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It won't work for hard pay walls

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[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 2 points 1 week ago

Honestly I had the opposite experience and never had a "paywall remover" work :/

I also tried the weirder techniques like stopping the load of the page etc but it's not very reliable and rarely works.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

Microsoft Claude Copilot 365

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Windows 12 will be the first vibe-coded OS

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Praying windows 12 will just be the name of the Ubuntu based distro Microsoft releases after they admit their devs are too incompetent to maintain a kernel.

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[–] hummingbird@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Win11 already is, see the latest few months of "security updates" breaking basic operation system functions.

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Microsoft is going to poison Claude with their shitty devs.

[–] rozodru@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

I think Anthropic has done a good enough job of poisoning Claude themselves within the past 4 to 5 months or so.

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Meanwhile, after installing Linux on my laptop last week and getting that set up, I'm in the process of backing up data on my desktop to do the same soon.

And what are the good non-github sites these days?

[–] tc4m@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Claude Copilot 365.

Add yet another layer of obfuscation to their terrible products and insanely bad branding.

[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Claude Copilot Series X One

[–] homes@piefed.world 7 points 1 week ago

MS isnt' very good at isolating its experiments...

[–] THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

The guy from GTA 3 is writing code?

[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

That's maybe the worst flex for Claude possible.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Microslop Claude 365 please.

Microslop mix

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