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Comment Claude Agent Teams vs Copilot Enterprise Teams (Score 2) 50

Several weeks ago I met a guy in an airport lounge bar and we compared AI notes between us. He turned me on to Microsoft Githhub Copilot Enterprise 'agentic teams' which I've been focused on since. I knew it was only going to be a short period of time before the other AI companies offered similar tech and now I see Anthropic is doing just that, (disclaimer, I only read TFA and linked-to article, and I have no experience with this new stuff yet).

Last few months I've purchased Jetbrains Junie. This month I purchased Microsoft Githhub Copilot Enterprise instead. Both provide access to different AI models like Anthropic's, ChatGPT's, Google's, etc. for their monthly prices.

To use all of the features of Github Copilot, you must have a Microsoft Githhub Copilot Enterprise account with at least one Organization, which costs $39/seat, which is the same price as a simple developer account without all the features. Thing is: from my perspective those features are critical to begin with, period. One of the great values of Microsoft Githhub Copilot Enterprise is how well it works with GIT, and if you do serious work with GIT repos and want to use the new AI stuff, you'll need a Microsoft Githhub Copilot Enterprise which cost the same as a simple dev account, and is a royal pain to setup for a sole dev.

Creating and configuring a Microsoft Github Copilot Enterprise account for the 2 days it took to get right felt like enduring a long hike through thick stinky swamp water on a cold, rainy night. It does work but I haven't used it long enough to judge quality or time savings. It's certainly comparable to JetBrains Junie ($30/monthly) which lacks agentic coding teams, unless today's announcement changes that somehow.

I do like specialized *.agent.md files and how they hand-off tasks to each other and create GIT Pull-Requests for my review.

I found these articles about Microsoft Githhub Copilot Enterprise useful:

A mission control to assign, steer, and track Copilot coding agent tasks

Planning a project with GitHub Copilot

How to orchestrate agents using mission control"

Comment Re:More interesting, or disturbing ... (Score 1) 50

What Happened After Security Researchers Found 60 Flock Cameras Livestreaming to the Internet

They were filming in a "V" pattern and heading South for the winter.

ATTN: News for Nerds: Birds are not real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://hub.jhu.edu/2024/02/07...

http://archive.today/Rb32y

Submission + - World's Richest Man Says Don't Bother Saving for Retirement (gizmodo.com) 4

Submitted by echo123
echo123 writes: "We're in the singularity. We're at the top of the roller coaster, and it's about to go down."

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Elon Musk, who just went to court to fight for a $139 billion compensation package despite already being worth an estimated $700 billion, says you shouldn’t worry your pretty little head about saving your own money. In an appearance on the podcast Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, the world’s richest man told listeners, “One side recommendation I have is: Don’t worry about squirreling money away for retirement in 10 or 20 years. It won’t matter.”

Musk’s theory is basically that AI will become so capable that it’ll drop the cost of everything so much that money won’t really matter. Everyone will have “universal high income.” Diamandis, arguably best known in recent years as the guy who hosted a $30,000 per seat event in the middle of the covid-19 pandemic that resulted in the majority of attendees getting infected, hopped on the hype train, too, explaining that he believes that AI will ultimately lead to “basically demonetizing everything” because “the cost of labor has gone to nothing, the cost of intelligence has gone to nothing.”

Submission + - Stop paying TurboTax when IRS Free File covers most taxpayers for FREE (nerds.xyz)

Submitted by BrianFagioli
BrianFagioli writes: The IRS has flipped the switch on Free File for the 2026 tax season, letting most Americans file federal taxes for exactly zero dollars. Anyone with 2025 adjusted gross income of $89,000 or less qualifies, covering an estimated 70 percent of taxpayers. The catch is that you have to start at IRS.gov/FreeFile, not the commercial sites that steer users into paid upgrades. Free File partners include familiar software brands like TaxAct, FreeTaxUSA, 1040.com and TaxSlayer, and many will throw in free state returns too. The program works on computers and phones and supports e-filing before the official opening of tax season.

What surprises me every year is how few people know this exists. Despite more than 77 million returns filed through Free File since 2003, most folks reach for TurboTax or H&R Block and end up paying for something the government already supports at no cost. Even gig workers and renters qualify now if their AGI is under the limit. If you want to keep more money in your wallet, start at IRS.gov/FreeFile and skip the upsell parade.

Comment Re: It depends on your skills level (Score 1) 139

by echo123 (#65880219) Attached to: Does AI Really Make Coders Faster?

However, with very actively developed libraries and frameworks, I often run into the problem of LLM tools generating code for deprecated interfaces, or mixing the APIs of different versions.

By using explicit, detailed prompts, (and good ol' GIT to fall back on, so I can try again when I fail), I have been successful.

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