With the the launch of Github Spark and multi-model support in late October, Microsoft has fired another salvo at AI code-generation startups, bringing the competition for developer mindshare to a new level of intensity. The winner of this war will command the wallet share of nearly 30 million software developers worldwide, and more importantly, generate hundreds of billions of dollars of aggregate revenue (assuming a percentage of developers get automated).In Part I of this post, I explore the ...