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Re:GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience by moonchrome on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @04:35PM (#35266719)
They are bragging about 1m developers on copilot, let's say 20$/m to be generous - that's 20m$/month - they probably have larger single client revenues than that and I doubt copilot is high margin (I bet I spend more than 10$/month in compute by the queries I generate).

Unless this goes to hundreds of dollars/month (which I would pay if it was a good experience) I don't see this making a dent.

Re:GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience by mewpmewp2 on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @04:46PM (#35266845)
Probably it will be using license for enterprises with decent margins, and it will be much higher cost then. Soon it's no-brainer for all enterprises to buy. I truly think that a little bit more time and engineering costs would be down 80% - 90%, because of all this tooling.
Re:GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience by DeathArrow on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @06:01PM (#35267664)
Maybe they think of waiting until everyone uses Copilot and then jack up the price.

But that wouldn't quite work.

Re:GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience by theptip on Thursday March 23, 2023 @12:59AM (#35270704)
The upsell is easy to envision though. Just like GitHub.

If developers all use it for their own projects, you have a viral growth engine. And you can charge a lot more for the enterprise license.

SAML, fine-tuning on your private repos, etc. - this could be a very expensive seat with all the options added.

Re:GitHub Copilot X: The AI-powered developer experience by moonchrome on Thursday March 23, 2023 @06:23AM (#35272514)
They already have enterprise licenses at 20$/month I generously quoted above (personal is 10$/month), and I think they might have a tough sell when you consider privacy/IP concerns.

I think they are just trying to establish themselves in the market and how the market will play out will be seen over the coming years.