If you're using Github already then Copilot isn't seeing anything new.

Correct, but that level of security is expected from GitHub proper, they have all sorts of independent security reviews for their partners. Does all of that exist for Copilot?

Do you think Microsoft would dare to have Copilot with any less standards?

Counter: it already vomits all kinds of licensing issues everywhere, which somehow they didn’t really see coming…so yes?

No it doesn’t.

given widespread stories of how Copilot development was done on a skeleton team (like 6 pple at launch) yes absolutely

Yes

Exactly why our product Codeium (Copilot alternative) supports self-hosting.