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Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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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...

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

#182
post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The confusion is when I say “I have a terrible time using Copilot, I don’t recommend using it” and someone chimes in with how great their experience with Github Copilot is, a completely different product and how I must be “holding it wrong” when that is not the same Copilot. That Microsoft has like 5 different products all using Copilot in the name, even people in this very comment section are only saying “Copilot” s…

I mean, sure. But aside from the fact that everything in AI gets reduced to a single word ("Gemini", "ChatGPT", "Claude") [1], it's clearly not an excuse for misrepresenting the functionality of the product when you're writing a post broadly claiming that their AI products don't work. Github Copilot is actually a pretty good tool. [1] Not just AI. This is true for any major software product line, and why subordinate…

I specifically mention that my experience is with the Office 365 Copilot and how terrible that is and in online discussions I mention this and then people jump out of the woodwork to talk about how great Github Copilot is so thank you for demonstrating that exact experience I have every time I mention Copilot :)

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eliminate C/C++ in favor of what? Perhaps the plan is to use AI to write plain assembler? Why stop there, maybe let's do prompt in - machine-code out?

If remember correctly, Rust.

Why are rust people always insane?

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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post #126

This is funny because everyone’s AI strategy should have been “What do we actually need to be productive?” Which is how Anthropic pulled ahead of Microsoft, that prioritized checks notes Taking screenshots of every windows user’s desktop every few seconds. For productivity.

Anthropic has a model. Microsoft doesn't.

A large language model, or a business model?

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

#186
post #144

Microsoft really needs to get a better handle with the naming conventions. There is Microsoft Copilot, which replaced Bing Chat, Cortana and uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 and 5 models. There is Github Copilot, the coding autocomplete tool. There is Microsoft 365 Copilot, what they now call Office with built in GenAI stuff. There is also a Copilot cli that lets you use whatever agent/model backend you want too? Everything is Co…

> There is Github Copilot, the coding autocomplete tool. No, there is Github Copilot, the AI agent tool that also has autocomplete, and a chat UI. I understand your point about naming, but it's always helpful to know what the products do.

...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.

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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post #111

For one reason or another everyone seems to be sleeping on Gemini. I have been exclusively using Gemini 3 Flash to code these days and it stands up right alongside Opus and others while having a much smaller, faster and cheaper footprint. Combine it with Antigravity and you're basically using a cheat code.

It's the opposite experience for me. Gemini mostly produces made up and outdated stuff.

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

#188
post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> No, there is Github Copilot, the AI agent tool that also has autocomplete, and a chat UI. When it came out, Github Copilot was an autocomplete tool. That's it. That may be what the OP was originally using. That's what I used... 2 years ago. That they change the capabilities but don't change the name, yet change names on services that don't change capabilities further illustrates the OP's point, I would say.

That's silly. Gmail is a wildly different product than it was when it launched, but I guess it doesn't count since the name is the same? Microsoft may or may not have a "problem" with naming, but if you're going to criticize a product, it's always a good starting place to know what you're criticizing.

Gmail is almost identical today as it was when it first launched. It just has fancier JavaScript

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

#189
post #111

For one reason or another everyone seems to be sleeping on Gemini. I have been exclusively using Gemini 3 Flash to code these days and it stands up right alongside Opus and others while having a much smaller, faster and cheaper footprint. Combine it with Antigravity and you're basically using a cheat code.

I've never, ever had a good experience with Gemini (3 Pro). It's been embarrassingly bad every time I've tried it, and I've tried it lots of times. It overcomplicates almost everything, hallucinates with impressive frequency, and needs to be repeatedly nudged to get the task fully completed. I have no reason to continue attempting to use it.

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

#190
post #111

For one reason or another everyone seems to be sleeping on Gemini. I have been exclusively using Gemini 3 Flash to code these days and it stands up right alongside Opus and others while having a much smaller, faster and cheaper footprint. Combine it with Antigravity and you're basically using a cheat code.

Oddly enough, as impressive as Gemini 3 is, I find myself using it infrequently. The thing Gemini 2.5 had over the other models was dominance in long context, but GPT5.2-codex-max and Opus 4.5 Thinking are decent at long context now, and collectively they're better at all the use cases I care about.
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