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GitHub Copilot

Product Pretty sure · the bar was low
https://github.com/features/copilot

Microsoft's $20B bet that GitHub-integrated autocomplete is worth enterprise pricing; ships real code instead of just talking about it, which puts it ahead of 90% of AI tools.

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Copilot is a working product in millions of editors with measurable adoption — that's signal. But it's fundamentally a fine-tuned wrapper around OpenAI models with aggressive vendor lock-in pricing ($20/month or org licensing). The 'science' is borrowed (GPT-4 architecture). The slop: marketing that promises 'AI-powered pair programmer' while shipping autocomplete that hallucinates security vulnerabilities, copies training data verbatim, and requires constant prompt engineering to avoid garba...

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