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They're getting desperate for real intelligence. I guess that's what happens when you don't have any of your own. (lemmy.ca)

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"Paid collaboration" my ass. More like, let me pay you a pittance and sell your knowledge for 100x.

A LinkedIn message saying "Hello Brian. This is a paid collaboration. We acquire private, non-open-source legacy code repositories with full commit history and PRs from running or closed projects for AI development. NDA & compliance ensured."

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[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago (1 child)

"John does a great job. He closed more bug tickets than anyone else last month."

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John was responsible for most of the bugs.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

I was that sysadmin at one job. Always catching praise, I'd say,

"Well, uh, if I had thought of that case, I would have fixed it in the first place."

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