Microsoft notoriously tolerated pirated Windows and Office installations for about a decade and a half, to solidify their usage as de facto standard and expected. Tolerating unofficial free usage of their latest products is standard procedure for MS.

> VS Code Version: 1.109.0-insider (Universal) - f3d99de

Presumably there is such thing as the freemium pay-able "Copilot Chat Extension" for VS Code product. Interesting, I guess.

That repo alone has 1.1k open pull requests, madness.

This is a peer-review.

Their email responses were broadly all like this -- fully drafted by GPT. The only thing i liked about that whole exchange was that GPT was readily willing to concede that all the details and observations I included point to a service degradation and failure on Microsoft side. A purely human mind would not have so readily conceded the point without some hedging or dilly-dallying or keeping some options open to avoid accepting blame.

As someone who takes pride in being thorough and detail oriented, I cannot stand when people provide the bare minimum of effort in response. Earlier this week I created a bug report for an internal software project on another team. It was a bizarre behavior, so out of curiosity and a desire to be truly helpful, I spent a couple hours whittling the issue down to a small, reproducible test case. I even had someone on my team run through the reproduction steps to confirm it was reproducible on at least one other environment.

The next day, the PM of the other team responded with a _screenshot of an AI conversation_ saying the issue was on my end for misusing a standard CLI tool. I was offended on so many levels. For one, I wasn’t using the CLI tool in the way it describes, and even if I was it wouldn’t affect the bug. But the bigger problem is that this person thinks a screenshot of an AI conversation is an acceptable response. Is this what talking to semi technical roles is going to be like from now on? I get to argue with an LLM by proxy of another human? Fuck that.

It was a mess before, and it will only get worse, but at least I can get some work done 4 times a day.

This could be the same, they know devs mostly prefer to use cursor and/or claude than copilot.

See also: string interpolation and SQL injection, (unhygienic) C macros

I would have done the same.