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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel like we’re missing the forest for the trees here, this is all in service of a feature in bing that was supposed to revolutionize search but actually caused a 0% increase in Bing’s market share from q1 to q3 https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/bings-search-market-share-fails-to-budge-despite-ai-push/

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

AI Tools - plural. ChatGPT (and OpenAI as a whole) predominantly runs on Azure infrastructure. Microsoft also owns GitHub with its associated copilot. And now all the Microsoft product specific copilots.

Not trying to defend their usage, but there are several forests here that are quite visible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh wow didn't know github was owned by Ms

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd use it all the time if it didn't require an account.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've been using the Codium plugin in VSCode for a little bit now and find it useful. It's free, but does require an account.