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Two years ago, Microsoft dominated the market for AI coding tools, which automatically generate code for developers.
That’s because it got early access to OpenAI’s models through its partnership with the startup, and at the time, Microsoft led the pack in code generation. As a result, Microsoft moved quickly to launch GitHub Copilot as the first widely available AI coding product in 2022.
Today, Microsoft has lost a lot of ground to tools like Cursor and Anthropic’s Claude Code, which closely compete with
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