Buckshot comments on British workers spend nearly £1bn of their own money on GenAI for work, research finds

[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I have at least 1 colleague who does this. Has a Claude subscription despite being provided with github copilot.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I dont understand how the microsoft AI is so bad though. I dont use much AI thankfully but any experience I have had it is the worst. Chatgpt is better and from mt understanding it is the basis for it.

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[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Github copilot is a totally different product from Microsoft copilot. Github copilot is just a harness for any model. I can use openai, anthropic, google, etc. models.

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[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

I presume you have to subscribe to the model to point github to it? Is that how repos show anthropic or whichever model is used as contributors?

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[–] Buckshot@programming.dev 1 point 1 month ago

No. They handle that. You get so many credits that get used at different rates depending on the model.

You can burn through your months allowance in 10 minutes using Fable then your employer just gets billed the coverage. I think it's based on the provider's API pricing so just using Claude or codex directly is probably cheaper.

If you have it do the work entirely and make PRs itself then Copilot is listed as the author regardless of model. E.g. you can assign it an issue and it'll go and do it itself. I don't use that though because it's bad at it.

I tend to just prompt it to write snippets as part as whatever I'm working on to save some typing.

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