They are:
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.
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.
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)
Same reason Google has added AI summary to their most used product: search.
In all seriousness, I was using a different LLM with vscode, and it still kept popping up dialogs about copilot. This is after I had uninstalled the copilot extensions (or at least I tried to uninstall it all).
I'd love for the IDE's like cursor to be able to be an extension on vscode and such, but this type of thing makes it super hard for that to be a reality.
The reason is that "we are all-in on AI". [1] They have spent so much funds on AI infra that now they have to justify these decisions before the investors by forcing Copilot on everyone.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/vscode/comments/1mk7dcc/comment/n7g...
PS: I absolutely love Copilot. What I hate is MS's approach to it
But I wonder if my usage back then would even run afoul of copilot ?
All I did was access github using ssh(1)/git(1). I only went into the WEB Page to create new projects, so maybe copilot would have been a non-issue for me.
Github was just a storage location to allow other people to get my items.
I recently tried it for our own PRs and it is far from perfect but it was able to find some typos, and I had to explicitly ask it for doing review
am I missing something?
These forced AI shenanigans won't last, just like Clippy in ms word back in the day. Now barely a memory.