Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog
There’s a phrase in enterprise software: “Eat your own dog food.” It means you should be using the software you’re developing internally, because you find bugs more quickly that way.
Evidently Microsoft developers prefer the taste of Anthropic’s Claude over their own Copilot AI slop.
Last year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed that the company writes up to 30% of its code using generative AI. As it now happens, Microsoft is reportedly planning to reduce the use of Anthropic’s Claude Code — a move designed to push its employees toward GitHub Copilot CLI.
For context, The Verge’s Tom Warren reported that Microsoft started opening access to Claude Code for its employees in December, including developers, project managers, and designers, allowing them to interact and experiment with the AI-coding assistant directly in their workflows.
Warren reports that Claude Code gained vast popularity among Microsoft employees over the past six months, which has seemingly led to a pullback on its Claude Code push in favor of its own GitHub Copilot CLI. “While Claude Code has been a popular addition, it has also undermined Microsoft’s new GitHub Copilot CLI coding tool,” Warren explained.
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These sorts of stories pop up again and again: Everyone who is forced to use Copilot seems to hate it. Claude doesn’t seem to generate the same level of loathing, maybe because Anthropic doesn’t have the same opportunities Microsoft does to shove it down the throats of its existing users.
Now we know that Microsoft’s Devs, just like its users, seem to prefer the taste of other people’s dog food over Microsoft’s…
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