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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

We will see corporate douche.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 379 points 1 week ago (9 children)

CEOs, embrace torches and pitchforks.

Copilot is shit.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 123 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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

[–] PleaseLetMeOut@lemmy.dbzer0.com 83 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Don't worry, they're gonna eat themselves doing shit just like this. It's not a matter of if, but when.

"AI" has it's uses (medicine, engineering, etc.), but 99.99% of the snake oil they're selling are just gimmicky cash grabs. Classic cases of Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

Let them burn their money, I say. Fuck it. Just sit back and enjoy the fire.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 58 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Hard agree. AI is not currently at the stage that CEO's think it's at. A few years down the road there's going to be a hard crash, when the problems overthrow the benefits and they realize they are just throwing money away. Sadly this also will be accompanied with a IT/Software "sinkhole" because many who were competent in the field will have moved on to the next thing as the jobs wern't there anymore.

Something similar happened with the Nursing field during COVID, prior to the event, there was a steady if not overflow of medical professionals, but when COVID occurred they started being treated like tools, medical facilities started having to pay mad amounts of money on traveling staff that jumped from facility to facility due to it to even partially make up for it as many left the field. Jump to today, the problem still exists, an educated field like IT or nursing can't have an event that results in tons of people leaving the profession, as you can't just snap your finger and get that knowledge back. It will take years to regain that trust and get people back into the fields again.

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 249 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Bro you are literally not necessary, not even the best at what you do. See everyone on codeberg.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 99 points 1 week ago

Codeberg is so nice.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 73 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] witheyeandclaw@lemmy.sdf.org 45 points 1 week ago (6 children)
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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 239 points 1 week ago (9 children)

This part really stuck out for me:

This is the latest example of a strange marketing strategy by AI companies. Instead of selling products based on helpful features and letting users decide, executives often deploy scare tactics that essentially warn people they will become obsolete if they don't get on the AI bandwagon.

If hype doesn't work, try threats!

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago

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.

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[–] troed@fedia.io 187 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Move to Codeberg (esp. if you're European) - but please don't forget to donate something as well. If we don't pay for actual freedom, we won't be able to keep it.

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 70 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 160 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Get out or what? GitHub?

I don’t understand this insistence that all developers must use AI.

If AI made a developer better, why insist, wouldn’t the vibe coders outcompete all others?

Wouldn’t they need non AI coders to train things?

Or is it because this snake oil pitch only works when everyone does it so no one notices it’s detrimental effects?

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 65 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 117 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Already done. I moved everything to Codeberg a year or two ago. I strongly recommend it to anyone looking for safe, non-corporate, community-oriented version control. It’s also German and non-profit.

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

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[–] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 103 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (17 children)

I don't get it. AI is a tool. My CEO didn't care about what tools I use, as long as I got the job done. Why do they suddenly think they have to force us to use a certain tool to get the job done? They are clueless, yet they think they know what we need.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

Because like AI, your CEO is a tool.

[–] bless@lemmy.ml 59 points 1 week ago (5 children)

GitHub is owned by Microsoft, and Microsoft is forcing AI on all the employees

[–] ksh@aussie.zone 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They all need to be sued for unethical “Embrace, Extend and Extinguish” practices again

[–] end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

best I can do is rusty dull guillotine

[–] 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 1 points 6 days ago

nah rusty and a blade that is serrated.... make way more mess. As an aside the guillotine was designed for theatre, the mechanism actually makes that loud noise on purpose! Pointless to kill someone without a bit of theatre don't ya think

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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 97 points 1 week ago (2 children)

GitHub is being pushy? Fucking GitHub?

Should we tell him git doesn’t actually need GitHub? That it existed just fine before it and will continue to exist after it?

Ima tell him…

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 43 points 1 week ago (11 children)

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.

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[–] Lev@europe.pub 92 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Daily reminder that Codeberg is always the good alternative to corporate bastards like this idiot

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[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 82 points 1 week ago (1 children)

While I don’t wish for this future, I do look forward to being one of the few that truly understands the ‘old way’ of computing like many here on Lemmy. All that knowledge I spent my youth acquiring may very well become insanely valuable in the next few decades because so many people will treat it as irrelevant.

I’ll feel a lot like this:

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[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 76 points 1 week ago
[–] hark@lemmy.world 73 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Funny thing to say after using their code to train the shitty-ass AI. Developers don't need AI, but AI certainly needs developers.

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 66 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Would AI be better CEO's? They would cost a lot less and probably make better decisions. Just saying.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 60 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 66 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And now we understand why MSFT buying github a some years back was a really big deal actually, and not just some kind of mostly neutral, generic expansionary business move.

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[–] borokov@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Moved from github to gitlab when it was acquired by Microsoft. Moved from gitlab to codeberg last month because I don't need a behemoth with dozens of services I never use to store my 3 shitty code files.

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[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 64 points 1 week ago

If those are my two options...start looking for my projects on Codeberg I guess.

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 56 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 56 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Can this guy really be considered a CEO if GitHub is a fully owned subsidiary of Microsoft?

You know Microsoft, the company that is heavily invested in OpenAI and is spending hundreds of billions to try to make AI happen?

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[–] zephiriz@lemmy.ml 54 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's funny how so many people make big businesses and think they are the GOAT when in reality the true GOAT is Linus Torvalds.

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[–] krimson@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Keep inflating that bubble boys.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He probably spent millions of his owe money on AI stocks.

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago

Expectation: High quality code done quickly by AI.

Reality: Low quality AI generated bug reports being spammed in the hopes the spammers can get bug bounty for fixing them, with AI of course.

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