Thank you. I included the url params when I made the post, but it appears that HN strips these.

To grow revenue. If it’s an option, it is less likely to be bought versus including it and increasing prices to get towards growth goals.

Tech wants the growth, companies consuming this want to be able to do more with less people. The result is the current experience.

(TLDR line go up)

Can't make a bubble without generating a lot of froth.

To attract more investment, because it's the hottest trend. They don't care if it actually works and profits.

They have invested huge amounts in the AI bubble which they have to justify to shareholders and / or investors. The easiest way to do this is to integrate it into existing products which already exists so they can claim millions of daily active users.

Same reason Google has added AI summary to their most used product: search.

Same reason random companies shipped Web 3.0 and NFTs. They were hoping to make money off it. They're now hoping if they sprinkle some AI pixie dust it will make money. If they're smart they can grab a couple million off the AI bandwagon before it goes bust. Either way they need to keep up with the joneses.

After investing a lot of money, bean counters can make things look better on paper if they can say "you see, everyone is using it". Others want to benefit from users actually training their AI. So they'll feed you all kind of party slogans, but they rarely are real motivations.

Microsoft only forces things, it's not a surprise at this point.

Basically FOMO, and keeping shareholders happy.

We have OKRs for using AI, yet no dev tooling allowed without customer permission in projects delivery.

So you have this ridiculous situation where the only tool devs are allowed to use is CoPilot 365, and pasting/saving code, for those that care about their OKRs.

CEO tells CTO to allocate budget towards increasing productivity with AI and this is the asnwer, it's easy to enable and not that expensive to trial

Microsoft wants to lock you as soon as possible in their ecosystem for AI-usage?

If they can get the many GH enterprise users to use copilot on their repos, then for Microsoft the future is merely about optimizing their margins while the technology keeps getting better.

That is generally a problem with all AI right now.

Not factored into OKRs, unfortunately. Maybe next time. Or never!

It isn't just code, all AI models need to train on equivalent of low-background radiation steel, before the nuke was detonated(or ChatGPT was released to public).