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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 days ago

GitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slop

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GitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slop

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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 days ago
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We asked a week ago: if AI is such a superior programming method that it’ll produce live quality code for Microsoft and live code for Facebook that actual money relies on — then where are the AI co…

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    quite amazing that (a) Microsoft basically bought open source with GitHub (b) and are now trying to fuck it up so hard people leave

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      And that’s why I Codeberg now. I even give a few bucks every month to pretend I’m paying a subscription.

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      Someone should come up with a catchy alliterative name for this tactic of incorporating competing ideas in Microsoft product family, augmenting them with their own proprietary crap and pulling the rug after achieving lock-in. Maybe call it AAA for “Adopt, add on, annihilate”.

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        Sadly not a new thing for Microsoft. The term exists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

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          whoosh

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            lol you don’t have to be a dick about it

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              incorrect

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        iswydt

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        They call it BOGU

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