Microsoft has over a million paying GitHub Copilot users
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Re: Microsoft has over a million paying GitHub Copilot users
#2I clearly recall MSFT lying directly about sales numbers in competitive markets, on camera, in print, on web pages, here in California.
Re: Microsoft has over a million paying GitHub Copilot users
#3I clearly recall MSFT lying directly about sales numbers in competitive markets, on camera, in print, on web pages, here in California.
What happened then, because as a public company that's fraud
Re: Microsoft has over a million paying GitHub Copilot users
#4That's like $10M monthly recurring revenue. Easily enough to pay for a 100 person team working on the product. Good job, I'd say.
Re: Microsoft has over a million paying GitHub Copilot users
#5That's like $10M monthly recurring revenue. Easily enough to pay for a 100 person team working on the product. Good job, I'd say.
I expect compute is a non-trivial amount of the cost, at least compared to salaries.
Unless of course you just get those 100 people to watch what people are typing and really quickly write their own suggestions.
Re: Microsoft has over a million paying GitHub Copilot users
#6That'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...
Re: Microsoft has over a million paying GitHub Copilot users
#7I've been a paying user for a while now and the chat feature has become slower and slower. It takes up to a minute now for it to reply which is too long for a productive back and forth.
Re: Microsoft has over a million paying GitHub Copilot users
#8That's like $10M monthly recurring revenue. Easily enough to pay for a 100 person team working on the product. Good job, I'd say.
I expect compute is a non-trivial amount of the cost, at least compared to salaries. Unless of course you just get those 100 people to watch what people are typing and really quickly write their own suggestions.
Do things that don't scale!
Re: Microsoft has over a million paying GitHub Copilot users
#9We also use it for all devs but I'm thinking of cancelling. The bugs it introduced that were too easy to glance over cost us more time in total than it really saves us imho.
Re: Microsoft has over a million paying GitHub Copilot users
#10I clearly recall MSFT lying directly about sales numbers in competitive markets, on camera, in print, on web pages, here in California.
What happened then, because as a public company that's fraud
it probably wasn't a full throated lie. there are so many ways to mislead without lying when it comes to financials. like quietly lumping in your MS office subscriptions into your Azure web services numbers.