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The Dilution of the 'Copilot' Brand and AI Product Quality ==========================================================
The Dilution of the 'Copilot' Brand and AI Product Quality ==========================================================  ### Gergely Orosz
@GergelyOrosz
“Copilot” is something me and many others associate with “slop.” Not because if GitHub Copilot (which was good), but because of Copilot everywhere else, they Microsoft shipped unfinished, buggy… just plain bad.
Here’s my brother @balintorosz reflecting wanting to avoid just this with his startup, @craftdocs: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-first-mak…
Mar 14, 2026, 1:39 PM View on X
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Gergely Orosz discusses how the 'Copilot' moniker is losing its prestige due to low-quality implementations, contrasting GitHub Copilot with rushed AI features elsewhere.
Summary
In this tweet, Gergely Orosz critiques the current trend of branding every AI feature as a 'Copilot.' He argues that while GitHub Copilot was a high-quality tool, subsequent 'Copilot' releases—particularly from Microsoft—have often been buggy or unfinished, leading to the term being associated with 'slop.' He shares a link to a deep-dive newsletter article by his brother, Balint Orosz, regarding how the startup Craft.do is approaching AI integration with a focus on quality to avoid these branding pitfalls.
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