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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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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 54 minutes ago

Microslop Claude 365 please.

[–] dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 hour ago

Claude Copilot 365.

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

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 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 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] garretble@lemmy.world 1 points 42 minutes ago

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

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 1 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 6 points 14 hours ago

Microsoft Claude Copilot 365

[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 hours 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 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 41 minutes ago* (last edited 40 minutes 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)

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 52 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Microsoft is killing itself with shit vibe code.

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Good. Let's accelerate the transition to TempleOS.

[–] Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 13 hours ago

Microslop cope-pilot

[–] DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] 123@programming.dev 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Micracoslop

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Copilot sucks, that is all

[–] mrnobody@reddthat.com 4 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

You do realize its ChatGPT underneath, yes?

I chuckle and die a little when the CGPT bois trash Copilot, but lie, when it was nonprofit MS was funding a lot of the research so that's their backend.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

I dont use openai, chatgpt was better for sure though, maybe not on a model level but on ui and ux. Copilot constantly has not checks that interrupt work. Copilot and chat gpt give different responses when interpreting excels, copilot is worse. It is the worst llm I have used.

I use le chat, copilot is for work and rarely because it sucks so much.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Squizzy didn't come off as a "ChatGPT boi." What are you on about?

[–] mrnobody@reddthat.com 2 points 17 hours ago

I wasn't meaning they are specifically, just pointing out how fanbois are. Thats why I dropped to another paragraph. Sorry

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 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 1 points 3 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?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 32 minutes ago

Can you share yours?

[–] mech@feddit.org 1 points 2 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.

[–] MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz 13 points 21 hours 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 2 hours ago (1 children)

Intellisense can review a 1000 line PR?

[–] MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 hour 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 21 points 1 day ago (6 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. :).

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours 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.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 hours ago

They’re all objectively shit.

Even with Opus in the backend Copilot is so bad compared to Claude code

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours 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.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 points 13 hours ago

I don't know, that is about all Mistral can do too.

That and python scipy is like a 50/50 for relevant code snippits.

It had never once output compilable embedded code, even when I have tried to directly lead it there.

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[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago

Like a virus you say?

[–] lmr0x61@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago (12 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!

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[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Microsoft is going to poison Claude with their shitty devs.

[–] rozodru@piefed.social 6 points 21 hours ago

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

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