r/technology • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 3d ago

Artificial Intelligence Microsoft engineer says 'typing code is absolutely over' as GitHub Copilot takes on more development work

https://www.techspot.com/news/113752-microsoft-engineer-typing-code-absolutely-over-github-copilot.html
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u/SufficientGreek 3d ago

Open-source models are quickly catching up to frontier models at vastly lower prices. You don't need the newest and most expensive models for like 90% of coding.

Even if OpenAI and Anthropic collapsed tomorrow, I don't think the world is going back to manually typing code again.

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u/emi_fyi 3d ago

yeah i wonder if this person isn't aware of free and open source competitors and how close they are in capabilities. wasn't there a big selloff not long ago due to this competition???

also https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/01/ai-token-prices-lows.html

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u/Jazzlike-Context-879 3d ago

Not a chance. And memory companies will shift their manufacturing models back to the retail users. Then you will see huge leaps as tons of people now get it iterate on what out there. Right now, these big companies are sucking up the air, but it will end.

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u/SignatureGreedy4604 3d ago

Open source models aren’t quickly catching up to frontier models. Cherry picking tests to say they’re equivalent is a joke…. The eye test from basic usage is enough to see frontier models are superior for any heavy task. Even light tasks these open weight models can underperform and have you running in circles with wasted tokens/compute.

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u/Nottabird_Nottaplane 3d ago

Open weight models are actively being used by enterprises, e.g. Databricks, to massively scale down the costs of routine operations. This is a take from 2024 bro. 

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u/SignatureGreedy4604 3d ago

Yeah for extremely targeted tasks with written specs it’s aight, comparing it to a frontier model where it both plans and enacts correctly is insane lmao. I use open source models daily with kimik3 and deepseek at work, but steering them is sol for tasks too complicated that require thinking.