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So what do we use now?
I just wrote a tiny bit of code, a cute little GLSL shader than generates some shapes in a Voxel modeling tool I like. Would love to share it. Most of the shaders I use were found on GitHub. I was going to use GitLab but then realized it was like a second life bar of the same GitBoss.
I have no idea where to host my little scripts now.
Codeberg
It is truly, deeply amazing how bad Microsoft is. Proton on Linux is FASTER than the actual directX it's emulating is on windows. They got beat at their own instruction layer.
And they had Skype, which was practically a genericized trademark for "video call--" until first Apple's FaceTime and then Zoom utterly took them apart.
And they had Office, which defined the product category so completely that it's called "office software--" but then Google Docs took them apart on a molecular level.
Microsoft is the king of snatching defeat from the clutching jaws of victory.
They also had Internet Explorer. When it was released it was actually good (compared to the competition). Internet Explorer was dominant, but then it turned into the punching bag for web browser memes.
Proton (and Wine, what it's based on) are not emulators. They are compatibility layers, it translates Windows system calls to native Linux system calls.
Or simply put: Wine Is Not an Emulator
That isn't "simply put". It's a witty way to phrase half the comment, completely omitting the other half that actually explains what it does. WINE is a clever abbreviation as a name for the tool, but the opposite of descriptive about its purpose or function.
WNE?
Ah, WINAE.
Yes... I actually cannot fathom just how incessantly bad a company can manage to be, and how some people still refuse to realise how there's literally nothing of value to be had from anything made by Microsoft.
Microsoft could have been king with with chatgpt for personal superapp, github copilot for developers and something like sharepoint/power vibe widgets. But nooo, they make windows recall when ai models can't run locally
if they had made a unified copilot agent they would have won. Think open claw with the power of NPUs for small tasks and cloud for big queries dedicated APIs for interacting with all the microsoft products special tailored version for developers. More focus on retrieving information and doing small tasks for the user than generating slop.
Just like Skype getting lapped by Zoom during COVID
Lol! Be like GitLab instead:
1 - Be the underdog with good reputation in a market completely monopolized;
2 - Have the incumbent self-destruct by vibecoding its product and pushing AI above every other feature to its customers;
3 - Loudly announce that you are leaving your past good behavior behind, and that you are betting everything on vibecoding and pushing AI to your customers!
The US Govt. as a customer, and the forges they operate / contract, being pushed to use AI is probably (unfortunately) a huge piece of this problem.
Microsoft never fails to disappoint
Failing successfully tho.
It's really so funny to watch when you don't use any of their junk
Huh. I guess Microsoft and I have that in common.
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You forgot the symbol crash at the end. How disappointing.
Typical!
Their idea was that OpenAI was so far ahead of the competition no one could ever catch up. Turns out they weren’t and now they’re at the bottom.
At the bottom? Is there a single LLM that has surpassed ChatGPT?
Claude
Google: "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI". Prophetic words.
It's so beautiful to read a giant corporation realise that they are hopeless and have no game to play.
I see this as proof of how bad LLMs actually are. You have an AI trained on essentially humanity's collective programming library. Languages of machines and computers. The result should be ungodly and near perfection. If there was any semblance of understanding in AI, it should be revealed in it's capability to produce code.
Although... I can definitely see Microsoft thinking that their code is the example of perfection and training copilot on that rather than github.
This should be godly and near perfection
Counterpoint: garbage in, garbage out
Oh right, that.
Your proof of how bad LLMs are is the fact that there are a bunch of other companies producing way better coding agents and coding models than Microsoft is? I'm not sure how that follows. Those other agents are good, that's the point of this.
I would (probably not literally) wager that by "this" they meant *looks around at entire world*...
this
It's weird because copilot in office tries to push agents on you as if it were a Jehovah's witness.
So GitHub copilot doesn't have them? I don't really use that.
It's saying Copilot was the first on the scene and had access to literally all of the training data anyone could possibly want, and is still being shown up by most other AI models. Their failure to capture the vibe coding space is a legendary fumble. At least that was my read.
Eh wait. Copilot (any of the about 30 products with copilot in the name) is not a model. Microsoft makes a few models like phi but they're underwhelming. All of copilot runs on models from external parties like openai and anthropic. So basically Microsoft is at the mercy of their own competitors. They're in the awkward position that providing training data to their model providers not only improves their own product but their competitors' as well.
Additionally, Microsoft's most profitable market is enterprise and they would absolutely shiver at their data being used for training and would abandon the service in droves.
Despite being "all in on AI" Microsoft is in a really vulnerable position. Their added value is their integration with their other services (and data therein through RAG).
Pfffft. No way. That would be like the company that owned skype failing to capitalize on video calls during some sort of major pandemic.
At least Minecraft has been a success
They have agents, but they weren't the first to make agents, and they aren't the most advanced agentic system too. Maybe someone can enlighten me but I don't see a single strong upside.
It does have agents.
No idea what the person above thinks. Maybe they think agents are just those little toys where you build an app in an iframe from a chat on the side.
I mean, GitHub has one of those, but CoPilot agents are primarily directed from CLI, the Issues system, and in VSCode. Because GitHub makes their money from enterprises who employ developers, not I've Got An App Idea guys.
It is impressive how much better claude is than copilot specifically for coding.
Like... how much bullshit is in Windows to learn off of, let alone github.
"if they're gonna steal, they should at least do it right" I mean, I can see how someone would want to think that, but I'm fine with them failing to steal.
I don't know the original author's opinions on AI, but I think it's still fair to say that it was clearly Copilot's goal to steal all the code and be good, and they had all the code, and so ethics aside one would expect them to have succeeded with flying colour at whatever their goals were, even if those were bad goals.
But they failed instead, which is impressive.
And fail at the basic task of keeping GitHub running with 99% uptime in the meantime
Greentext on X?
Nah, green is woke.
