GitHub Copilot is generally available

Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by hn_throwaway_99 on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @05:56PM (#31829546)

I think your response highlights why individual developers are the worst target market and why you want to sell to businesses if you're in the tool space.

Let's say the average developer in the US costs 10k a month (I think that's pretty close to the real average of around 120k a year). So copilot would cost .1% of that developer's salary. I realize calculating things around "improvements in developer productivity" involve lots of fuzzy math, but it would be stupid for any company NOT to pay this if it improves developer productivity by just 1%.

Another way to think about it that I think may be more "real world": Let's say I'm CTO of a big company with 1000 software developers. Do I think it's going to be a better investment to hire another developer so I have 1001 developers, or instead use that other developer's salary to buy all the devs at my company a Copilot license?

But for some reason individual developers think that anything over $1-2 dollars a month is an exhorbitant cost.

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Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by richiebful1 on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @09:22PM (#31830999)

If you're an employee what percentage of that productivity increase accrues to you?

I would not spend $10/month on a code completor for my job, because I would probably never see those $10 back in salary. I doubt the company would even notice the minor bump in productivity, say $100 a month

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