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I get that it's annoying, but also don't know what else one would do? "FooPilot is our Office AI toolset, BarWonk is our code assist tool"? There are also a lot of Claudes and GPTs. Naming things is hard.
One should aim for clarity.
FooPilot, Barwonk, etc.. would actually be a vast improvement.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Copilot in Visual Studio (Code) is not the same as Microsoft's Copilot. The former is GitHub's AI product and the latter is Microsoft's AI product. You can tell them apart because GitHub Copilot's icon is a helmet with goggles and Microsoft Copilot's icon is a colourful swirl thing. It's wildly confusing branding not only because they're identically-named things that both repackage OpenAI's LLMs, but also because…
> they're identically-named things that both repackage OpenAI's LLMs Haven't tried it yet but the GitHub Copilot extension for VSCode also seems to integrate Claude, Gemini and other non-OAI stuff
The Claude Code extension for VSCode from Anthropic will use your Claude subscription. But honestly it’s not very good - I use it but only to “open in terminal” (this adds some small quality of life features like awareness it’s in VSC so it opens files in the editor pane next to it).
Microsoft is uniquely unable to name / brand anything sensibly: "Outlook" / "Outlook Web Access" / "Outlook Web App" / "Outlook.com" / "new Outlook for Windows" / "Outlook (classic)" .NET: .NET Framework. ASP.NET. .NET Core. Windows .NET Server. Ugh...) The love of the term "Explorer": "Internet Explorer" / "Windows Explorer" / "File Explorer" / "MSN Explorer" Similarly is the love of "Defender": "Windows Defender" /…
Copilot is just Microsoft's term for AI. How many products have Copilot? Just about all of them.
> Copilot is just Microsoft's term for AI. This comment really helps me put things in perspective. I'm guess now that it's Microsoft's way of naming their LLM-powered products/features, the same way "Azure" is basically their codename for "cloud".
They just like branding their dev tools for whatever they're pushing at the time. In 2002 they named Visual Studio "Visual Studio .NET".
Microsoft is uniquely unable to name / brand anything sensibly: "Outlook" / "Outlook Web Access" / "Outlook Web App" / "Outlook.com" / "new Outlook for Windows" / "Outlook (classic)" .NET: .NET Framework. ASP.NET. .NET Core. Windows .NET Server. Ugh...) The love of the term "Explorer": "Internet Explorer" / "Windows Explorer" / "File Explorer" / "MSN Explorer" Similarly is the love of "Defender": "Windows Defender" /…
I don’t use windows, so most of this doesn’t affect me, but I do use GitHub and VSCode. Can anyone clarify, once and for all, whether “GitHub Copilot” and “VSCode Copilot” (sic?) are the same product? The documentation isn’t even clear, and it’s important because it affects billing. How do these two products interact and where do they NOT overlap? This confusion even bleeds into other coding harnesses. I have no idea…
Git is a distributed source control system. It's open source and you can use it to version source code on your drive and/or a remote git repository. Github is one of the most popular git repository hosts. In addition to source repositories, it has other services like issue tracking and wikis. A while back, Microsoft bought Github. "Github Copilot" is a service you can buy (with limited free sku) from Github that adds…
Yeah github pays Claude but what's the point ?
Copilot is just Microsoft's term for AI. How many products have Copilot? Just about all of them.
Copilot is just Microsoft's term for AI. How many products have Copilot? Just about all of them.
Copilot is just Microsoft's term for AI. How many products have Copilot? Just about all of them.