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They don't care, they would rather let you use pirated MS software than move to Linux. Not even sure that's true anymore. How else to explain WSL/WSL2? They practically lead you to Linux by the hand these days.
Even with that, your hardware is still running Windows.
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So 100 Opus requests a month? That's not a lot.
Cat's out of the bag now, and it seems they'll probably patch it, but: Use other flows under standard billing to do iterative planning, spec building, and resource loading for a substantive change set. EG, something 5k+ loc, 10+ file. Then throw that spec document as your single prompt to the copilot per-request-billed agent. Include in the prompt a caveat that We are being billed per user request. Try to go as far a…
Just at the absolute best deal in the AI market.
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Better than actual human customer agents who give an obviously scripted “I’m sorry about that” when you explain a problem. At least the computer isn’t being forced to lie to me. We need a law that forces management to be regularly exposed to their own customer service.
I knew someone would respond with this. HN is rampant with this sort of contrarian defeatism, and I just responded the other day to a nearly identical comment on a different topic, so: No, it is not better. I have spent $AGE years of my life developing the ability to determine whether someone is authentically providing me sympathy, and when they are, I actually appreciate it. When they aren’t, I realize that that per…
Ralph loops for free...
The "premium request" billing model where you pay per invocation and not for usage is very obviously not a sustainable approach and creates skewed incentives (e.g. for microsoft to degrade response quality), especially with the shift towards longer running agentic sessions as opposed to simple oneshot chat questions, which the system was presumably designed for. Its just a very obvious fundamental incompatibility and…
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On the other hand ... I recently had to deal with official Microsoft Support for an Azure service degradation / silent failure. Their email responses were broadly all like this -- fully drafted by GPT. The only thing i liked about that whole exchange was that GPT was readily willing to concede that all the details and observations I included point to a service degradation and failure on Microsoft side. A purely human…
> The only thing i liked about that whole exchange was that GPT was readily willing to concede that all the details and observations I included point to a service degradation and failure on Microsoft side. Reminds me of an interaction I was forced to have with a chatbot over the phone for “customer service”. It kept apologizing, saying “I’m sorry to hear that.” in response to my issues. The thing is, it wasn’t sorry…
The company can't have it both ways. Either they have to admit the ai "support" is bollocks, or they are culpable. Either way they are in the wrong.
The laat comment is a person pretending to be a maintainer of Microsoft. I have a gut feeling that these kind of people will only increase, and we'll have vibe engineers scouring popular repositories to ""contribute"" (note that the suggested fix is vague). I completely understand why some projects are in whitelist-contributors-only mode. It's becoming a mess.
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I've had single prompt to Opus consume as many as 13 premium messages. The Copilot harness is so gimped so they can abstract tokens from messages. Every person that started with Copilot that I know that tried CC were amazed at the power difference. Stepping out of a golf cart and into .
It hasn't done that to me. It's worked according to their docs: > Copilot Chat uses one premium request per user prompt, multiplied by the model's rate. > Each prompt to Copilot CLI uses one premium request with the default model. For other models, this is multiplied by the model's rate. > Copilot coding agent uses one premium request per session, multiplied by the model's rate. A session begins when you ask Copilot…
and now I see your comment mentions that explicitly. The output was quite unambiguous. :shrug:
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I knew someone would respond with this. HN is rampant with this sort of contrarian defeatism, and I just responded the other day to a nearly identical comment on a different topic, so: No, it is not better. I have spent $AGE years of my life developing the ability to determine whether someone is authentically providing me sympathy, and when they are, I actually appreciate it. When they aren’t, I realize that that per…
The world would not actually be improved by having 1000s of customer service reps genuinely authentically feel sorry. You're literally demanding real people to experience real negative emotions over some IT problem you have.
The exceptions are generally when people are scared, and sadly some people are scared all the time.