What ThePrimeagen thinks about Microsoft

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Michael Paulson, known online as ThePrimeagen, a programmer who spent ten years at Netflix and now streams and teaches programming full time on Twitch and YouTube.

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1. 22 Mar 2025

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

   Their wordsWhereas 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.

   ↗ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461youtube.com 30th of 31 in this recording