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  Alun Jones (ftp_alun@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 10:40:05 JST Alun Jones

  • Kevin Beaumont

  @GossiTheDog "We have the right product, we just need to find better customers" is not generally a winning business position.
  And yet it is a staggeringly popular one.

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  Hugo Mills (darkling@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 10:49:54 JST Hugo Mills

  • Kevin Beaumont

  @GossiTheDog The problem is that nobody at MS (or any other big company) will care if the comments are entirely negative. The only thing they care about is if there's enough suckers paying for it.

  My company just enabled Copilot in GitHub, at the cost of $21 a seat (only slightly less than the cost of the rest of the service).

  People do want it, and are paying for it, as amazing as it seems to you or I.

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  David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) (david_chisnall@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 20:33:28 JST David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

  • Kevin Beaumont
  • Hugo Mills

  @GossiTheDog @darkling I’ve not tried Copilot for M365 but I believe it’s being folded into the base M365 subscription because businesses aren’t willing to pay for it and some high-profile customers who tried it have stated that it was a waste of money and stopped.

  GitHub Copilot is okay. I have been using it because it’s free and I wanted to see if it’s actually useful. It’s been a slight net reduction in productivity: it’s introduced a couple of very subtle bugs that have cost me more debugging time than it’s saved in typing. It stopped working for a few days last week and I felt subjectively more productive. I was a bit sad when it started again. I’ll probably turn it off soon. If GitHub started charging for it, I definitely wouldn’t pay. In contrast, my editor’s LSP-driven autocomplete broke briefly yesterday and that was really noticeable. GitHub Copilot is mostly good for writing code that you shouldn’t write. Anything that a machine-learning system can generate, a better abstraction layer could eliminate the need for and eliminate all of the associated bugs.

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  Joachim (joachim@boitam.eu)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 18:23:00 JST Joachim

  • Kevin Beaumont

  @GossiTheDog I just learned about Gerald Ratner, the jeweler who was filmed saying that his products were total crap (hence the cheap price). He very nearly scuttled his company with these remarks.