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Comment by latentsea

19 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.

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.

  • By this measurement, a slower compiler is better than a faster one, because developers are using it for more of their time. Totally bonkers, Microsoft!

    • When your identity is tied to that being a success, you will find a way to make it so, because it feels much worse to have your identity challenged at a fundamental level than it does to have people grumpy with you for acting in a way that allows you to preserve your identity.

      Most corporate BS comes down to this.