This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Sounds like a desperate tactic to show value to investors who are skeptical of all the insane level of cap ex... not to mention all the customers who don't want to pay for this garbage
Part of the joke is who even constitutes "value investors". As the MAG7 bloat the S&P, it's increasingly just a handful of companies passing the same dollar back and forth as fast as possible, with the expectation that they'll get bailed out by the Feds when the game is up.
Sad thing is, they're probably right. Trump's trying to get the Fed to loosen rates on the heels of an inflationary wave in order to guarantee enough exit liquidity before the market crashes.
Then we'll get another brutal privatization wave, with conservatives preaching deficit hawkery in order to justify abolishing Medicare, SS, national parks, public education, anything that can be liquidated for a quick buck.
They are so desperate to push this and it's pretty obvious why. Companies have dumped hundreds of millions of dollars into AI like it was going to revolutionize literally everything and are now forcing it on people to make up for the fact that they were wrong. Don't get me wrong, AI has its uses, but their whole "solution for everything" mentality is really starting to backfire and they are just trying to make a profit off their investments. Basically "we spent way more money on this than we should have so you better use it or else."
Edit: In addition, every company is trying to be the one that's on top when the bubble pops which is only making it bigger and last longer which will only make it worse when it does actually pop. It's a problem they created and are sustaining themselves, and if they back out now it could be just as catastrophic as letting the bubble pop.
I don’t trust Copilot to make basic suggestions, let alone edits, on an html file.
If they intend to pay me the same amount to work slower and think less, that's their choice and I will be happy to help them out pursuing it. ChatGPT, explain to my boss how I'm using AI for everything I work on now.
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.
Github Copilot is so god awful. you'd think having access to millions of repos the thing could actually learn something.
Guess I'm migrating my code to a different service then 🤷♂️
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.
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.
Risky talking down to developers. Does the CEO not know that Git is like REALLY easy to move?!
Microsoft mouthpiece parrots Microsoft talking point. News at eight.
what a piece of shit. par for the course for a ceo though.
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.
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
CEO = Marketing with a different title. Trust the words out of their mouths the same.
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 "
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/
Oh I'm already out, but only of your shitty products.
Dear all governments:
Ban AI. Completely.
Love,
Intelligent people
Ban AI. Completely.
That is really short sighted. We all know it is not AI. The marketing is such bullshit.
But we also know that predictive algorithms can be useful. For instance: digitizing a property line, or identifying features in a lidar cloud, or discovering anomalies in blood cells. Then there are prediction tests and what if scenarios.
Seems like this is the same argument people had about computers in general. Ban all computers they said. Who knows maybe this guy in 1968 was right all along. and computers are the problem.
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 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?
I already got out in March when github decided to close my account because I didn't want to involve my phone with my github account.
Codeberg has been a much more pleasant experience.
The git site has instructions on how to create your own git server in 30 mins.
It's very easy once you know it's literally just an SSH account.For personal projects or small teams is absolutely fine.
For open source there are lots of GitHub alternatives
Damn, Microsoft rolling out the "Fuck You" hits lately. Allowing hate speech against Transgender people on LinkedIn, and now this shit on Github, not even mentioning the absolute bullshit their Desktop is these days.
Never been a better time to be eying alternatives. Fuck you Github CEO, fuck you LinkedIn, fuck you Microsoft, and fuck you Satya Nadella! 🖕🖕🖕🖕
