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David GerardM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish • 17 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 GerardM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish • 17 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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  • David GerardOPM
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    29•17 days ago

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

    • @bitofhope@awful.systems
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      18•17 days ago

      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”.

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

        • @froztbyte@awful.systems
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          15•16 days ago

          whoosh

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

            • @froztbyte@awful.systems
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              5•16 days ago

              incorrect

      • @froztbyte@awful.systems
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        5•16 days ago

        iswydt

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        4•17 days ago

        They call it BOGU

    • @6nk06@sh.itjust.works
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      10•16 days ago

      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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