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Guy who runs waning AI service (Copilot, currently being eaten by Claude Code and Qwen Coder) says use his AI service or you’ll be out of a job.
Guess I'm migrating my code to a different service then 🤷♂️
Is his message: “let us scrape your code or go away, and we gonna scrape it anyway” note: scrape = steal
does "embracing AI" means replacing all these execs with it? or is it "too far"?
This is [...] a strange marketing strategy by AI companies. Instead of selling products based on helpful features and letting users decide, executives often deploy scare tactics that essentially warn people they will become obsolete if they don't get on the AI bandwagon.
Very insightful for me to read this. If AI in its present state was as useful as it is advertised, it wouldn't need such apocalyptic language.
Risky talking down to developers. Does the CEO not know that Git is like REALLY easy to move?!
I got out when Microsoft bought it, glad I did. I don't want you training your shitty AI on my shitty code.
TIL Github has a CEO.
such an easy choice ......
(edit: I followed up and got out. This too is now self-hosted and codeberg when needed)
Message to Github CEO: your job is one thing AI is best at.
Microsoft mouthpiece parrots Microsoft talking point. News at eight.
what a piece of shit. par for the course for a ceo though.
I asked an AI to generate me some code yesterday. A simple interface to a REST API with about 6 endpoints.
And the code it made almost worked. A few fixes here and there to methods it pulled out of it's arse, but were close enough to real ones to be an easy fix.
But the REST API it made code for wasn't the one I gave it. Bore no resemblance to it in fact.
People need to realise that MS isn't forcing it's devs to write all code with AI because they want better code. It's because they desperately need training data so they can sell their slop generators to gullible CEOs.
I hate to say it, but this is going to be so much worse than cloud everything when it all comes crashing down.
Because people won't have AI to help them do anything. For some reason I get that's kind of the idea.
Does github copilot include attributions and licenses from projects it copy paste code from or it's just stealing and pretending like nothing happened like all other AI ?
You can always count on the ceos of smaller companies that are owned by larger mega corporations to tell it to ya straight with no bias
Oh I'm already out, but only of your shitty products.
Curious when the last time business insider quoted a labor leader without a CEO or capitalist shill quoted in the same article. A US private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) acquired a majority share in the parent corp in 2020. They're also selling ads for development in the west bank under yad2 https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/germany-media-giant-axel-springer-advertises-israels-illegal-settlements-in-the-west-bank-through-its-classified-ads-website-yad2-incl-co-comment/
GitHub is the worst git platform out there, I want version control not fucking Facebook for programming
Anyway,another point for "I'm just gonna make some money in this field nd fuck right off doing something actually useful "
CEO = Marketing with a different title. Trust the words out of their mouths the same.
I see Microsoft don't need developers and those who work there are morons. That's how I read what Github CEO said.
Well, given git is decentralized and self-hostable.....
I have a lot of projects, many OSS and some private. I self host forgejo for my private stuff and also have a lot of my oss there.
Still, I currently use GitHub as my main git service, since it's the most polished code forge and their ci servers are free and fast as fuck. The only other thing keeping me there is the network effect in the sense that I like my projects to be more discoverable, not that anyone gives a shit about my code besides a few friends and randos.
If they get annoying, it's trivial to move. I got the infrastructure set up, and forgejo federation is coming.
I really don't understand CEO's obsession with AI... is it because when they give LLMs a go they feel smart and finally capable of doing the things others could do but they were too dumb to engage with, like reasonably good writing or drawing pictures?
Way ahead of you, looked for GitHub alternatives such as codeberg ages ago.
I've always hated GitHub glad to see it finally is going to crumble
