GitHub Copilot Had Dozens of Original Inventors at Microsoft, Alumni Reveal
andrew_n_carr · x · 2026-10-01
After a user claimed to have met 9 different original inventors of GitHub Copilot, a former Microsoft engineer responded that around 20 people at Microsoft were leading the project — a notable tidbit about the size of Copilot's founding team.
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