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Software engineers at Microsoft are now expected to use both Claude Code and GitHub Copilot and give feedback comparing the two, I’m told. Microsoft sells GitHub Copilot as its AI coding tool of choice to its customers, but if these broad internal pilot programs are successful, then it’s possible the company could even eventually sell Claude Code directly to its cloud customers.

Guys? Are we going to have to rename Microsoft products from Copilot to Claude soon?

Microsoft Claude 365?

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[–] dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Claude Copilot 365.

Add yet another layer of obfuscation to their terrible products and insanely bad branding.

[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

Claude Copilot Series X One

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Meanwhile, after installing Linux on my laptop last week and getting that set up, I'm in the process of backing up data on my desktop to do the same soon.

And what are the good non-github sites these days?

[–] tc4m@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] garretble@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

OK, cool, thanks. I'll check it out!

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 20 hours ago

Microslop Claude 365 please.

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 2 points 22 hours ago

I wonder if the shift away from ChatGPT was due to their latest model using grokipedia to spew disinformation.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 71 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Microsoft is killing itself with shit vibe code.

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

Good. Let's accelerate the transition to TempleOS.

[–] Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 day ago

Microslop cope-pilot

[–] DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] 123@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Micracoslop

[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Klopilot - I'm sorry I think this only works in German

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Welllll

WC stands for Water Closet and I think Klo is short for Klosett?

The brits also call it the 'loo' which doesn't sound too far off from 'Klo' I think

So it's not actually that hard to infer what it means

To be fair I did take like 6 years of Deutsch in die Schule, aber ich habe alles vergessen + I'm not entirely sure we ever learned the word "Klo". Maybe we did.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

In the most German pedantic way: "in der Schule"

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Oh right, Dativ.

My excuse is that I come from a language background with no articles, so declension on articles are unnatural to me! In fact, articles are unnatural to me!

In Estonian, the noun cases for that word would be

kool

kooli

kooli

kooli

koolis

koolist

koolile

koolil

koolilt

koolini

koolina

koolita

kooliga

kooliks

We have 14 of those so we get to skip prepositions and thus only need to decline the noun itself and any adjectives in front of it (or behind it if you're writing a poem and it flows better that way, Estonian is very weird when it comes to actually sentence ordering the words in a)

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago

Microsoft Claude Copilot 365

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 1 day ago (3 children)

We got copilot reviewing our code at work

It mostly just finds typos and other things like that

Quite useless at anything else

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

We have ours configured pretty well at this point and it does an absolute bang-up job at code review. It will point developers towards tools and utilities that our monorepo has If they appear to be reinventing the wheel. It will catch common problems and issues that we have in our instruction file, and does a pretty good job of catching bugs and small issues like typos and what not.

Perhaps you need to tighten up your instruction file?

[–] mech@feddit.org 2 points 21 hours ago

Yeah, LLMs are pretty great contextual search engines if you curate a good dataset for them to draw from.
They aren't a magic bullet that'll find what's relevant to you from the vast ocean of shit that is the internet.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago

Can you share yours?

[–] MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Like intelisence which has been doing it faster, more consistantly and offline since the mid 2000's?

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Intellisense can review a 1000 line PR?

[–] MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz 2 points 21 hours ago

Of course? Just as quick as it can candy colour the braces and highlight your references of your 1000 line pr

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

My girlfriend is forced to use only Copilot at her work, and its just completely useless. She frequently posts me failed tasks it couldnt do. :).

Seems to be the worst Ai by far.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

GitHub copilot within visual studio is not bad actually, if it doesn't find anything to but typos then congrats your team is all competent senior developers...

It does cut down review time for juniors' work, and it's capable of implementing full features given the correct documentation and instructions. It's a useful tool that assists and doesn't replace competent developers.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

For copilot in visual studio at least you can select between models it will use, depending on the org setup showing them.

I don't see how "worst of all of them" applies when it's an umbrella of other models.

Maybe we're all taking about different copilots. There's multiple products after all.

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[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Copilot sucks, that is all

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[–] lmr0x61@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think Microsoft, as they often do, see the writing on the wall—the AI bubble bursting soon, taking AI-only businesses with them. What I see in this is a play to, at best, buy some extra good will with Anthropic so they can be first in line for the acquisition when the latter are tanking, or at worst (and more likely imo), get them dependent on Microsoft for revenue so that they have no other choice to be subsumed by them.

But I’ve been wrong about most economic/political predictions I’ve ever made, so we’ll see!

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago (7 children)

If there's any company that will survive the bubble, it's Anthropic. They're the only company with a product, a business model, and customers that see long-term value in it.

[–] jaxxed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Their product may be one of the best, but they are more expensive, and they have no hope of making enough revenue to float their business.

MS and Google float their AI with their other profits, so it can work as a business model.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

OpenAI is the one doing 800 billion dollar deals and buying all the memory in the world

[–] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Lol. They made some "deals" based on hope and a dream. In reality they are still posting net losses.

By the way, I have the very best bridge in the world to sell you. Interested?

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

I’m sorry if my comment came across as supporting OpenAI. That was definitely not my intention 😆

Point was that they’re spending trillions and crashing the PC parts market and still firmly in the second place

[–] jaxxed@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Is there anybody left who thinks that openai is going to survive? I don't think it has 6 months of life left.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

It’s a weird money circle where companies spend money they don’t have for products that don’t exist and the money just goes round and round.

At some point someone will come asking about where the money actually is.

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[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago

Like a virus you say?

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Windows 12 will be the first vibe-coded OS

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Praying windows 12 will just be the name of the Ubuntu based distro Microsoft releases after they admit their devs are too incompetent to maintain a kernel.

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[–] hummingbird@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Win11 already is, see the latest few months of "security updates" breaking basic operation system functions.

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Microsoft is going to poison Claude with their shitty devs.

[–] rozodru@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago

I think Anthropic has done a good enough job of poisoning Claude themselves within the past 4 to 5 months or so.

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 11 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Great paywall. I guess I'm not reading this article.

And then La Verge will wonder why it can't keep readers on their website.

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