Overview
- Disney told U.S. employees it will remove Microsoft's GitHub Copilot and Amazon's Kiro and Q from its approved internal coding tools in August, while the changes do not apply internationally.
- The company will retain access to Anthropic's Claude Enterprise and Cursor and will cut Claude access via AWS Bedrock, reflecting heavy internal use of those tools.
- An internal message reported by journalists says Disney is preparing to add OpenAI's Codex as a coding assistant, but the timeframe and full rollout details were not provided and remain unconfirmed.
- Multiple Disney engineers told reporters they rarely used Copilot, citing complexity and recent token-based pricing changes at Microsoft, while many developers reported heavy, daily reliance on Claude and Cursor.
- The move underscores vendor competition for enterprise coding assistants and could shift engineering workflows and vendor relationships as Disney aims to boost developer velocity and simplify its toolchain.