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@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.