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Microsoft has over a million paying GitHub Copilot users
- mistrial9 3y agoI clearly recall MSFT lying directly about sales numbers in competitive markets, on camera, in print, on web pages, here in California.
- Rastonbury 3y agoWhat happened then, because as a public company that's fraud
- jjeaff 3y agoit 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.
- perryizgr8 3y agoThat's like $10M monthly recurring revenue. Easily enough to pay for a 100 person team working on the product. Good job, I'd say.
- orf 3y agoI 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.
- shaftoe444 3y agoDo things that don't scale!
- protoplancton 3y agoExcept it's reportedly run at heavy losses atm https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/11/github_ai_copilot_microsoft/ https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/11/github_ai_copilot_mic...
- samspenc 3y agoYeah my guess is that $120 million revenue is likely breakeven at this point, probably being run over by salaries and even more compute / GPU / hardware costs to run this expensive LLM service.
- vitorgrs 3y agoNat Friedman doesn't seem to confirm that https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1712140497127342404 https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1712140497127342404
- barbazoo 3y agoI'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.
- RamblingCTO 3y agoWe 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.
- hm-nah 3y agoSince I’ve cancelled my GHCoPilot subscription, I do find myself waiting for the autocomplete to pop up! Realizing how much of my brain I outsourced to this “feature”. I now prefer co-developing with Azure/OpenAI because I can learn as I go. To me, with GHCoPilot, I had to know enough of the language I was working with to trust the code it produced. Now I can ask “Break down these functions into the smallest unit/explain XYZ to be as if I was a novice” and SO many other questions. To me, working with GPT4 is way better than working with CoPilot.
- Rastonbury 3y agoWhat do you mean Azure/OpenAI, is that a Azure product for ide? Or are you referring to ChatGPT Plus?