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Microsoft has over a million paying GitHub Copilot users

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Re: Microsoft has over a million paying GitHub Copilot users

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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.

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.

Re: Microsoft has over a million paying GitHub Copilot users

#12
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.

Re: Microsoft has over a million paying GitHub Copilot users

#13

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.

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

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

Re: Microsoft has over a million paying GitHub Copilot users

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post #12

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/exp…

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