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[–] alvyn@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 year ago

Is his message: “let us scrape your code or go away, and we gonna scrape it anyway” note: scrape = steal

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Guess I'm migrating my code to a different service then 🤷‍♂️

[–] aliser@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

does "embracing AI" means replacing all these execs with it? or is it "too far"?

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[–] falcunculus@jlai.lu 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] art@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Risky talking down to developers. Does the CEO not know that Git is like REALLY easy to move?!

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[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

such an easy choice ......

(edit: I followed up and got out. This too is now self-hosted and codeberg when needed)

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Microsoft mouthpiece parrots Microsoft talking point. News at eight.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 year ago

Message to Github CEO: your job is one thing AI is best at.

[–] mr_satan@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Two words: good fucking luck!

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[–] warm@kbin.earth 21 points 1 year ago

what a piece of shit. par for the course for a ceo though.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 19 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

We will see corporate douche.

[–] Jocker@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Contradictory to the title, this message is not to the developers, developers don't care what github ceo thinks, and they should know it. This might be for the management of other companies to allow using ai or force ai usage.

[–] Juice@midwest.social 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] vane@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

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 ?

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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/

[–] iglou@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago

Oh I'm already out, but only of your shitty products.

[–] xiwi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] the_doktor@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Dear all governments:

Ban AI. Completely.

Love,

Intelligent people

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[–] vane@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I see Microsoft don't need developers and those who work there are morons. That's how I read what Github CEO said.

[–] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 15 points 1 year ago

Well, given git is decentralized and self-hostable.....

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Way ahead of you, looked for GitHub alternatives such as codeberg ages ago.

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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?

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