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GitHub Copilot

Product Pretty sure · market dominance obscures limitations
https://github.com/features/copilot

The market leader in code completion that ships real value but charges enterprise prices for what started as a research demo. Genuinely useful, occasionally hallucinating, always profitable.

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Copilot demonstrates genuine signal: developers use it daily, it reduces mechanical typing, it ships. But the science floor is low—it's a fine-tuned model on public code, not a novel algorithmic contribution. The slop factor: enterprise pricing tier-stacking, breathless marketing about 'AI pair programming' when it's autocomplete with context window, heavy feature-flagging that suggests the product surface is still fractured. It works because GitHub owns the distribution channel and network e...

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