>>Anon84+(OP)
https://archive.ph/vc3Cn

>>phito+r2
The Copilot-Cli is not so bad,

https://github.com/features/copilot/cli

>>onion2+O4
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/engineering-at-microsoft/welc...

"Microsoft has over 100,000 software engineers working on software projects of all sizes."

So that would mean 100 000 000 000 (100 billion) lines of code per month. Frightening.

>>johneb+k7
You might want to change to Debian or some other distro more radical.

https://ubuntu.com/ai

>>mcinty+ta
He does !

https://x.com/bcherny/status/2007179832300581177

>>GaProg+ep
Probably because "Windows Modern Standby" makes laptops unusable by turning them on in your backpack and cooking them.

https://youtu.be/OHKKcd3sx2c

>>reacto+4a
If so, it hasn't always been that way. Steve Ballmer on IBM and KLoC's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHI7RTKhlz0

(I think it is from "Triumph of the Nerds" (1996), but I can't find the time code)

>>onion2+O4
Cf. -2000 Lines Of Code:

https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html

>>pjmlp+Ga
Indeed it's not: https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/01/09/is-microsoft-losing... And: https://www.perspectives.plus/p/microsoft-365-copilot-commer...

Tldr: Copilot has 1% marketshare among web chatbots and 1.85% of paid M365 users bought a subscription to it.

As much as I think AI is overrated already, Copilot is pretty much the worst performing one out there from the big tech companies. Despite all the Copilot buttons in office, windows, on keyboards and even on the physical front of computers now.

We have to use it at work but it just feels like if they spent half the effort they spend on marketing on actually trying to make it do its job people might actually want to use it.

Half the time it's not even doing anything. "Please try again later" or the standard error message Microsoft uses for every possible error now: "Something went wrong". Another pet peeve of mine, those useless error messages.

>>azaras+X3
The Copilot IntelliJ integration on the other hand is atrocious: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/17718-github-copilot--y...

I'm amazed that a company that's supposedly one of the big AI stocks seemingly won't spare a single QA position for a major development tool. It really validates Claude's CLI-first approach.

>>Anon84+(OP)
2 week old post feeling like part of the other weirdly promotional "Claude is everywhere right now" pieces that were around. Someone called it an advertising carpet bombing run.

A.I. Tool Is Going Viral. Five Ways People Are Using It

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/technology/claude-code.ht...

Claude Is Taking the AI World by Storm, and Even Non-Nerds Are Blown Away

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-code-ai-7a46460...

>>timr+Uy
...it gets better:

GitHub Copilot is a service, you can buy subscription from here https://github.com/features/copilot.

GitHub Copilot is available from website https://github.com/copilot together with services like Spark (not available from other places), Spaces, Agents etc.

GitHub Copilot is VSCode extension which you can download at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.c... and use from VSCode.

New version has native "Claude Code" integration for Anthropic models served via GitHub Copilot.

You can also use your own ie. local llama.cpp based provider (if your github copilot subscription has it enabled / allows it at enterprise level).

Github Copilot CLI is available for download here https://github.com/features/copilot/cli and it's command line interface.

Copilot for Pull Requests https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-for-pull-requests

Copilot Next Edit Suggestion https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-next-edit-suggestion...

Copilot Workspace https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-workspace/

Copilot for Docs https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-for-docs/

Copilot Completions CLI https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-completions-cli/

Copilot Voice https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-voice/

GitHub Copilot Radar https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-radar/

Copilot View https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-view/

Copilot Labs https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-labs/

This list doesn't include project names without Copilot in them like "Spark" or "Testpilot" https://githubnext.com/projects/testpilot etc.

>>pixl97+wy
"Microsoft Re-Designs the iPod Packaging" (2006)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k

>>pixl97+wy
Many will never know the joy of trying to search for it back in the days when punctuation was ignored (C# says hello too)

Related: https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/windows-servers-iden...

>>Anon84+(OP)
A friend of mine over there told me their VP put a mandate that everyone should install and use Claude Code and write a weekly report on their usage (what they did, what worked, etc.). They also track token usage and have a leaderboard of who uses the most token.

It reminds me of this [0] Dilbert comic, but heh.

[0]: https://x.com/idera_software/status/573165928264810496

>>mirekr+pF
Since we're talking about GitHub Copilot I'll lodge my biggest complaint about it here! The context window is stuck at 128k for all models (except maybe Codex): https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/264153 and https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/5993

This absolutely sucks, especially since tool calling uses tokens really really fast sometimes. Feels like a not-so-gentle nudge to using their 'official' tooling (read: vscode); even though there was a recent announcement about how GHCP works with opencode: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-01-16-github-copilot-now-...

No mention of it being severely gimped by the context limit in that press release, of course (tbf, why would they lol).

However, if you go back to aider, 128K tokens is a lot, same with web chat... not a total killer, but I wouldn't spend my money on that particular service with there being better options!

>>freedo+Cz
Try the conductor extension for gemini-cli: https://github.com/gemini-cli-extensions/conductor

It won't make any changes until a detailed plan is generated and approved.

>>kemote+ay
They will never get better until naming things is a C-Suite level respected position.

I think I could clean up their existing mess if they want help.

Jedd outlines my credentials well here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17522649#17522861

>>wolvol+qu
Hmm, 8M paid M365 Copilot users leaked in August, and at last week's earnings call the number was 15M.

Assuming the leak was accurate, almost doubling usage in 4 months for an enterprise product seems like pretty fast growth?

Its growth trajectory seems to be on par with Teams so far, another enterprise product bundled with their M365 suite, though to be fair Teams was bundled for free: https://www.demandsage.com/microsoft-teams-statistics/

>>dangus+VZ
Here are the settlements from Apple and Google regarding “how phones totally aren’t listening to you and selling the data to advertisers”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-voice-assistant-lawsuit-...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lopez-voice-assistant-payout-se...

>>thefly+J41
As an aside: have you thought about using agent-shell?

https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell

>>kemote+ay
The craziest thing was how Microsoft took the super established brand from decades, and renamed Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365.

I'm not sure if it's named Microsoft 365 Copilot nowadays, or if that's an optional AI addon? I thought it was renamed once more, but they themselves claim simply "Microsoft 365" (in a few various tiers) sans-Copilot. https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/buy/compare-all-micr...

>>disqar+Ta1
That and if Nvidia backs out of their $100B promise it may not be the death knell but it would certainly by a step backward for OpenAI.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-100-billion-megadeal-between...

>>zamada+Jz1
Although it seems in Europe we might all end up with recall style screenshots and scanning of what we're looking at.

Part of me wonders if Microsoft knew it would appeal to governments.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/uk-to-encourage-...

>>Sharli+sr1
You jest.

https://www.xbox.com/en-US/gaming-copilot

>>kemote+ay
> There is Github Copilot, the coding autocomplete tool.

It's also an LLM chat UI, I don't know if it's because of my work but it lets me select models from all of the major players (GPT, Claude, Gemini)

https://github.com/copilot

>>TZubir+vT
Best friendship takes place!

https://www.folklore.org/I'll_Be_Your_Best_Friend.html

>>koakum+HA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Most_Valuable_Profes...

>>dangus+J62
1. Any kernel level vulnerability nullify any formal protections Microsoft guarantees as the first party

https://www.bcs.org/articles-opinion-and-research/crowdstrik...

2. Settlements also avoid discovery because the impact is likely way worse than checks notes less than one day of profits per company, respectively.

>>banku_+Wr1
It's over 19 years old, but this video is a brutal but hilarious commentary on Microsoft's inherent dysfunction when it comes to product naming and packaging. Still on point decades later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k

>>riku_i+bt1
https://macaron.im/blog/ai-assistant-privacy-comparison#:~:t...

All providers are opt-out. The moat is the data, don't pretend like you don't know.

>>wolvol+qu
Great way to visualize the decline of software quality over the last twenty years: https://trends.google.com/explore?q=%22Something%20went%20wr...

Notable inflection point right around the time unlimited data became an afterthought and every piece of software decided it “needs” to spy on—— I mean needs to offer Fulfilling Connected Experiences at all times.

>>simply+qQ
https://github.com/dotnet/interactive

>>anonym+Sw
Microsoft funded Simon Peyton-Jones (Haskell) and Don Syme (F#) and SP-J worked on Excel, but it would be inaccurate to say that their goal was to rewrite Excel, Windows, C#, .NET into functional programming. Yes, to an extent researchers "play around on a whim doing hobby projects for fun", or more formally as SP-J said in an interview "the mission statement that Microsoft Research had at that time which was to push forward the boundaries of knowledge; put Microsoft in a position to be agile when new stuff heaves over the horizon; provide a reservoir of expertise for the rest of the company to draw on".

- https://archivesit.org.uk/interviews/simon-peyton-jones/

Otherwise your position is that "blue-sky research" doesn't exist (it does) or that big companies don't fund it (they do). In particular, the LinkedIn in question said nothing about "Windows", that is something internet has hallucinated to maximise ragebait.

>>fallou+Gy3
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