@p @lanodan @hj
> send people out to train other companies to use Copilot more, pushing "FREE COPILOT!" on VSCode users and Github users, and having quotas for a percentage of lines of code generated rather than written, right?
Aside from training their proprietary AI, like I said before, it secures market share.
People are stuck with their habits/muscle memory and changing to something else is hard. Thus little migration or demand for a better tool outside the proprietary ecosystem is asked.
Even tho nobody asked MS to make this in the first place.
The create a problem and they give a solution.
It's pretty common in these sphere. They create offer and demand just via hype.
And it makes the stock prices go brrrrr.