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VS Code and Copilot are loss leaders in an embrace-extend-extinguish play, raising the switching cost until nobody can leave.

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Microsoft The company and its bets: Copilot, the office tools business, and what agents do to both.

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  1. ThePrimeagen Michael Paulson, known online as ThePrimeagen
    Whereas something like Microsoft, they made VS Code as a loss leader. Copilot's probably operating on a loss leader. These things are all getting you so tied into, GitHub, remote workspaces, CI, Copilot, you become this trapped in permanent person and if that price rises, the switching cost is so great at some point that you'll never be able to switch.

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