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Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why would anyone use Copilot when you have so many other options. Cursor just released Composer 2.5 and it's actually decent. I should have a job right now doing this.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    From the enterprise admin of Copilot, Cursor & Claude....enterprise controls. Microsoft GitHub understands what companies need to run their products securely and successfully (at scale™).

    /edit to add. Our Copilot bill went down due to change in billing type, mostly due to organization pooling of credits.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    That just sounds like bad management, and a huge opportunity to cut costs by switching to Linux and something like cursor or other alternatives.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    I don't think you understood my sentence, we (the company) already offer plenty of choices. In fact we offer OpenAI (Codex, ChatGPT) as well as Gemini. I just admin Cursor, Copilot and Claude (and at one time we offered Windsurf, but that didn't have enough users to rectify the costs/time spent administrating it). What I am trying to tell you is that the fairly new companies, OpenAI, Cursor, Anthropic/Claude absolutely suck at making their product usable by the enterprise while Gemini and Copilot completely understand enterprise needs/requirements.

    We already have Linux laptops (with enterprise controls). /edit Apple machines are primarily used though. We even offer Windoze if you really need it! (Some folks do.)

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