Disney has decided it no longer needs a Copilot on its AI coding journey.<\/p>\n
The Mouse House is ditching Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot<\/a> and several other AI coding tools in August in the US, tech leaders told select staffers on Tuesday afternoon, according to a screenshot of an internal message viewed by Business Insider. These changes don’t apply internationally, a Disney tech leader told employees.<\/p>\n A breakup with Disney is the latest headache for Microsoft’s Copilot<\/a>, which “lags behind” rivals<\/a> like ChatGPT and Claude in adoption, as Business Insider’s Ashley Stewart has reported. GitHub Copilot is the coding assistant in Microsoft’s AI product suite.<\/p>\n Microsoft’s loss is Sam Altman’s win. Disney is preparing to adopt OpenAI’s Codex coding tool<\/a>, according to the screenshot. The message didn’t give a timeline for the tool’s introduction.<\/p>\n Disney will also keep staffers’ access to Anthropic’s Claude Enterprise and Cursor, while dropping two AI tools from Amazon:\u00a0the agentic code editor Kiro\u00a0and the\u00a0AI assistant Q. (Claude will also no longer be accessible through the Amazon Web Services Bedrock platform.)<\/p>\n Copilot’s challenges<\/p>\n Eight Disney tech employees told Business Insider that they rarely or never used GitHub Copilot.<\/p>\n One product manager said GitHub Copilot produced code that was “needlessly complex” and required clean-up.<\/p>\n A longtime software engineer said their access to GitHub Copilot had “lapsed for lack of use.”<\/p>\n “Once I got Cursor and Kiro, there was no need to use it,” this staffer said.<\/p>\n Copilot frustrated some users last month by updating <\/a>its pricing<\/a>\u00a0to charge customers based on their AI token usage, which is industry-standard. The company said GitHub Copilot’s request-based model was “no longer sustainable” as it unveiled the shift.<\/p>\n However, a Microsoft executive said in June that this move helped fuel the “best month ever”<\/a> for the GitHub developer platform, Business Insider previously reported.<\/p>\n Microsoft has set out to revamp GitHub<\/a> while shaking up its Copilot teams<\/a> to help its many Copilot tools compete with rivals from OpenAI and Anthropic.<\/p>\n Disney staffers are enchanted by Claude and Cursor<\/p>\n Claude and Cursor have become fan favorites among Disney tech employees<\/a>, as some superusers use agents to invoke those AI tools tens of thousands of times per day, Business Insider previously reported.<\/p>\n One high-level software engineer said their AI tool usage was “probably around 80% Claude at the terminal when coding.”<\/p>\n Disney’s streaming leaders created an AI adoption dashboard<\/a> to track usage and have encouraged tech employees to use it to work faster, Business Insider previously reported.<\/p>\n “The No. 1 thing is to increase velocity,” or the speed of output, a high-level AI staffer said.<\/p>\n Have a tip about Disney? 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