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Projects are shutting down due to Microslop's Github CoPilot making AI contributions easy and plentiful (programming.dev)
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Why aren't people moving away from Github? There's Codeberg, Gitlab, and radicle. What's holding them back?

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[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Ironically, github is a bit better at detecting the slop (for now) since the default settings put claude et al as co-collaborators on commits or the project itself.

[-] Hexarei@beehaw.org 2 points 2 days ago

Only if they're contributing through GitHub and not through local AI coding apps like Opencode or Claude CLI

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