<story><title>My total comp for creating GitHub Copilot</title><url>https://twitter.com/alexgraveley/status/1671213996735594503</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pleonasticity</author><text>I work on Copilot now, and I can say this guy is totally full of himself. Just because he contributed to the first prototype does not entitle him to claim creation. He wasn’t even the first person inside Microsoft to use LLMs in an IDE completion experience. The work from prototype to product is an order of magnitude more than prototype alone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orph</author><text>Orilly? We had no PM, EM, or designer: I played all those roles for 1.5 years.&lt;p&gt;I was one of the first to touch the OAI code model. Me and Albert developed the in-the-wild testing harness still in use today. We pulled all nighters to get GitHub approved for participation in the MSFT-OpenAI deal using those test results.&lt;p&gt;Existing Microsoft AI teams worked to halt our work, pushing their own small, worse models instead of OpenAI&amp;#x27;s.&lt;p&gt;I protoyped and lobbied for creation of the VScode extension. I invented and hacked the ghost text prototype into VScode, I invented the block based termination and implemented all the tree-sitter based logic needed to do it. Then I had to lobby up to Satya to get VScode to implement proper support in less than 6 months.&lt;p&gt;I named it Copilot.&lt;p&gt;I implemented GH auth, made the waitlist and onboarding. Helped design the e2e http&amp;#x2F;2 go server, after designing the fast.ly based precursor. Coordinated moving from OpenAI datacenter to Azure to improve Asia experience, and oversaw the cutover.&lt;p&gt;I was Chief Architect. It was my baby. Sad if this is how they are spinning the story internally at GitHub today.</text></comment>
<story><title>My total comp for creating GitHub Copilot</title><url>https://twitter.com/alexgraveley/status/1671213996735594503</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pleonasticity</author><text>I work on Copilot now, and I can say this guy is totally full of himself. Just because he contributed to the first prototype does not entitle him to claim creation. He wasn’t even the first person inside Microsoft to use LLMs in an IDE completion experience. The work from prototype to product is an order of magnitude more than prototype alone.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjr00</author><text>Their profile does say &amp;quot;creator of GitHub Copilot, Dropbox Paper, MobileCoin, and Hackpad&amp;quot; which indicates a bit of an ego problem. Professional software is a team effort, and pretending to be the only person who worked on a project is a red flag. Most people would say lead developer rather than creator...</text></comment>