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Comment by pydry

18 days ago

When their performance reviews stop depending upon them not doing that.

Microsoft's stock price is dependent on them proving that this is a success.

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Qem  18 days ago

> Microsoft's stock price is dependent on them proving that this is a success.

Perhaps this explains the recent firings that affected faster CPython and other projects. While they throw money at AI but sucess still doesn't materialize, they need to make the books look good for yet another quarter through the old-school reliable method of laying off people left and right.

mrweasel  18 days ago

What happens when they can't prove that and development efficiency starts falling, because developers spend 50% of their time battling copilot?

  • blibble  18 days ago

    they'll just add more and more half-baked features

    it's not as if Microsoft's share price has ever reflected the quality of their products

    • BugheadTorpeda6  18 days ago

      I think it did, then they built up a most that made it very hard to turn momentum the other direction. It's turned now but it happened very slowly. Who knows if it ever falls of a cliff, all I know is that moats are only broken when momentum is going in the wrong direction and so they are certainly more vulnerable now than they would otherwise have been if they hadn't pissed so many people off about their products.

      At one point, their desktop user experience was actually pretty good. And that was all their products back then. They definitely didn't get to where they are now by selling products that were bad. You could make the argument that some of them were bad but they were cheap, but if price is a big aspect of what makes a product good in the eyes of the consumer at the time and nobody else is competing on price, then that isn't "bad" in the sense I'm using the word.

      I don't think I'd have called them out for always making terrible products all the way through till about Windows 7. I had no major complaints about that release, cloud was in its infancy, no pushing 365 etc. After that, quality started to go downhill. To the point that I'd argue with a straight face that most major community supported Linux DEs provide an objectively better and more stable user experience for both technical and non technical users.

  • latentsea  18 days ago

    All that's required is enough mental gymnastics for someone to feel like they can call it a success. At no point is it actually required to be one.

    • mrweasel  18 days ago

      You're probably correct: "Our developers a very happy with CoPilot. They now spend 50% of their time interacting with our AI offerings, either via VSCode, Github or Clippy."

      No need to specify why they are interact with it, all engagement is good engagement.

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