Which is how you know they have a good product that they have full faith in.

when they have to blackmail, threaten, coerce, and force people to accept their product.

"The Sky Is Falling! Buy My Magic Umbrella!" is a classic hypeman's trick.

I'm looking out in the street. I see a lack of torches, pitchforks, or any pressure on corporate interests.

Copilot is shit.

Exactly, my company provides license for copilot and I use it, and while it has some highlights most of the time it actually is more a nuisance than help.

It especially annoys me because it hijacks autocomplete based on types with is own that frequently has subtle bugs, so now if I have it enabled I need to be on guard all the time. With the traditional autocomplete I could just trust it to be correct.

Codeberg is so nice.

But who else is going to micromanage and bully the employees and strut around self-importantly doing jack shit? /s

Part of the joke is who even constitutes "value investors". As the MAG7 bloat the S&P, it's increasingly just a handful of companies passing the same dollar back and forth as fast as possible, with the expectation that they'll get bailed out by the Feds when the game is up.

Sad thing is, they're probably right. Trump's trying to get the Fed to loosen rates on the heels of an inflationary wave in order to guarantee enough exit liquidity before the market crashes.

Then we'll get another brutal privatization wave, with conservatives preaching deficit hawkery in order to justify abolishing Medicare, SS, national parks, public education, anything that can be liquidated for a quick buck.

Studies show AI coding tools make the task slower. It only makes people feel they're faster, but reality is different. So it's the snake oil pitch. Nobody can know it doesn't really work and they keep throwing money at it in an increasingly more desperate "fake it till you make it". Because, if this thing implodes, it'll take a large part of the market and economy with it to do a rerun of the 2008 financial crisis.

It's because we're expensive. That's the long and short of it.

10 developers in Silicon Valley can run you $1-$2m in salary alone (it's more expensive with benefits added).

The industry constantly conspires to keep the salary of software engineers down. It does it cyclically too. In 2008 I was told I would have no problem getting a 6 figure job when I graduated by 2013. Of course the economy had other ideas. Same thing with the dot Com bubble.

I currently make double what I did 10 years ago. It doesn't actually matter much as inflation and a divorce has had my costs balloon just as much, but it's still loads more than any other job out there.

They'll get what they want, one way or another. Then when none of their shit works they inevitably come back begging us and we request better pay and benefits again, because we know they do this. They don't learn, much like those reliant on AI.

Also note that it's for open source projects only.

At some previous jobs, the newer devs would sometimes confuse the two. Its a real thing.

Me I lived through svn, mercerial, and file vault. So glad we ended up with git as the protocol.

Hell you can set up a git + file server and just use it without any Hub (Hob/lab/berg) if your bare metal enough. It works.

It's almost exactly the same sales strategy as crypto and nft.

Considering he's a Microsoft employee and Microsoft is leaning hard into the AI craze? His stock options are all dependent on this lol

This makes me want it to fail harder.

i urge people do do this but also donate to them too <3

A CEO's main job is to spout bullshit, which is also AI's particular talent.

The Github CEO didn't even "make" the big business. He was appointed by Microsoft after they purchased it and their first pick for CEO of Github resigned after 2 years.