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GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.
(www.businessinsider.com)
Microsoft mouthpiece parrots Microsoft talking point. News at eight.
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2025
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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 "
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?
My guess?
anthropomorphism.
People are assigning thought and specifically intent to the replies that they get from ML and LLMs. They don't realize that the model is essentially just an unchecked auto correct that uses the entirety of everything posted on the public Internet as it's basis for what to reply to a prompt, the same way your phone tries to predict what word you want to say next based on what you've typed so far.
It's just a lot bigger and more complex than the auto correct and word prediction that your phone has.
But that's it. That's all it does. It's not thinking. It's not intelligent. It has no intent. It cannot cognitively understand what it's saying or doing.
Taking to "AI" is basically having the average of all Internet content as a basis for the reply. That means it's going to make shit up, tell you to eat glue, and generally fuck around.
But most people seem to assign it human-like traits of reasoning and intent, when there isn't any. CEOs included.
It's the ultimate yes man.
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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.
what a piece of shit. par for the course for a ceo though.
CEO = Marketing with a different title. Trust the words out of their mouths the same.
Well, given git is decentralized and self-hostable.....
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.
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.
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I see Microsoft don't need developers and those who work there are morons. That's how I read what Github CEO said.
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/
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! 🖕🖕🖕🖕
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