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Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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softwaredoug wrote: post #165

It really says something that MS/Github has been trying to shovel Copilot down our throats for years, and Anthropic just builds a tool in a short period of time and it takes off. It's interesting to think back, what did Copilot do wrong? Why didn't it become Claude Code? It seems for one thing its ambition might have been too small. Second, it was tightly coupled to VS Code / Github. Third, a lot of dumb big org Micr…

Microsoft can just get one of thier devs to build a coding agent but instead all of these companies are just bowing down to Anthropic just because Anthropic is selling execs a dream situation where they can fire most of the devs. None of the other coding agents are any worse than CC, Gemini & Crush are even better, Codex is decent and even something like Opencode is catching up.

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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torginus wrote: post #241

To this day I cannot wrap my head around the fact why did Microsoft allow a culture to grow inside the company (either through hiring, or through despondence) that at best is indifferent towards the company's products and at worst openly despises them? I'm sure no other tech company is like this. I think technologies like the Windows kernel and OS, the .NET framework, their numerous attempts to build a modern desktop…

Because the products have become terrible, and they keep using more AI to solve it when AI is the problem with Microsoft. Microsoft execs are only riding Azure success, rest of the orgs are completely useless.

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gloomyday wrote: post #240

Microsoft products are decreasing in quality at an astounding rate. You can clearly see that sales people took over the whole company.

Its accelerated slopfication of Microsoft. And what are they are doing to fix it? More AI. The thing what is clearly making it worse. I think every division except Azure and Office are losing money at this point.

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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Post by hoppp »

kemotep wrote: post #127

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…

They are vibing the naming probably

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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Post by notatoad »

paxys wrote: 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 can think of one major reason why Microsoft and Apple would prefer to feed their codebases into Claude than to Gemini.

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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oefrha wrote: post #43

I try GitHub Copilot every once in a while, and just last month it still managed to produce diffs with unbalanced curly braces, or tried to insert (what should be) a top-level function into the middle of another function and screw up everything. This wasn’t on a free model like GPT 4.1 or 5-mini, IIRC it was 5.2 Codex. What the actual fuck? Only explanation I can come up with is that their pay-per-request model made…

I had my first go at using it (Github Copilot) last week, for a simple refactoring task. I'd have to say I reasonably specified it, yet it still managed to to fail to delete a closing brace when it removed the opening block as specified.

That was using the Claude Sonnet 4.5 model, I wonder if using the Opus 4.5 model would have managed to avoid that.

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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wahnfrieden wrote: post #245

Reading about ubiquitous Claude Code use inside of Apple and Microsoft, and not Codex, makes me very worried about forthcoming software quality. Claude Code is fun, full of personality, many features to hack around model shortcomings, and very quick, but it should not be let anywhere near serious coding work. That's also why OpenClaw uses Claude for personality, but its author (@steipete) disallows any contribution t…

I dont know about Apple, but Microsoft is completely consumed by this new AI coding wave. Apple probably still has some reasonable use policy, but microsoft has lost it entirely. I dont see myself using any microsoft software anytime soon.

Re: Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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ChrisArchitect wrote: post #181

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-cod…

Anthropic is known for this, they are purposefully putting these stories on the websites execs and managers read. They even astroturf HN every chance they get with 2 blog posts a week (sometimes even more).
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