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.

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

Copilot is shit

Yes and no. I find its terrible at solving more complex problems but its great at writing out tests for a function/view that covers every flow. My team went from having like 40% (shit) coverage to every PR having every case tested (inb4 they're not good tests, they are good)

With that being said, fuck CEOs and fuck AI. At least you could (mostly) escape the blockchain hype

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.

For some odd reason, this calls to mind an emotionally immature parent trying to get their toddler to eat vegetables... no reason at all...

The code reviews will continue until morale improves.

Threats work well for scams. People who couldn't be bothered to move by promises of something new and better can be motivated by fear of losing what they already have.

It's really unfortunate psychology is looked down upon and psychologists are viewed as some "soft" profession. Zuck is a psychology major. It's been 2 decades, most of the radical changes in which were not radical in anything other than approach to human psychology.

BTW, I've learned recently that in their few initial years Khmer Rouge were not known as communist organization to even many of their members. Just an "organization". Their rhetoric was agrarian (of course peasants are hard-working virtuous people, and from peasantry working the earth comes all the wisdom, and those corrupt and immoral people in the cities should be made work to eat), Buddhist (of course the monk-feudal system of obedience, work and ascese is the virtuous way to live, though of course we are having a rebirth now so we are even wiser), monarchist (they referred to Sihanouk's authority almost to the end), anti-Vietnamese (that's like Jewish for German Nazis, Vietnamese are the evil). And after them taking power for some time they still didn't communicate anything communist. They didn't even introduce their leadership. Nobody knew who makes the decisions in that "organization" or how it was structured. It didn't have a face. They only officially made themselves visible as Democratic Kampuchea with communism and actual leaders when the Chinese pressured them. They didn't need to, because they were obeyed via threat (and lots of fulfillment) of violence anyway.

This is important in the sense that when you have the power, you don't need to officially tell the people over which you have it that you rule them.

So - in these 2 decades it has also came into fashion to deliberately stubbornly ignore the fact that psychology works over masses. And everybody acts as if when there's no technical means to make people do something, then it's not likely or possible.

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

I agree with you 100% but theres also a small strange humour in the wordage of paying for freedom.

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.

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.

Codeberg is so nice.

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

i'm also looking forward for https://sourcehut.org/

The future is now. The future is also ten, twenty and thirty years ago! According to GitHub's Chief Executive Idiot himself:

the skills that will matter most include system design, AI fluency, delegation, and quality assurance

Except for "AI fluency", this has been true for fucking ever. No serious work environment evaluates their developers on how quickly they can vomit code (or so I hope): the job is indeed about design, quality and working as a team in general.
Which means a tool that does not help with any of these is already not a revolution. When the tool actively makes quality worse and collaboration more complicated, I get the impression it is actually detrimental.

Mind you, I might be dead wrong. I am personally not impressed so far. It seems to be a better autocomplete, but I don't want to throw a glass of water out the window every time I press tab.

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

I am convinced AI could replace CEO's very easily. Making decisions based on trends and lots of data is an easy use case. And if it's the wrong decision who cares? CEO's also don't take and responsibility at all. AI is also a very good lair too.

A magic 8 ball would be a better CEO. LLMs could probably pull it off fine.

I just wrote elsewhere in this thread but to repeat myself: I think the real job of a CEO is to schmooze with other CEOs and rich idiots. They get funding. Everything else is pretty much a liability, and would be better handled by someone with relevant expertise.

Broke: selfhost Forgejo (what Codeberg runs on, for those who don't know) because nobody looks at my code anyway
Woke: access my Git repo directly through SSH because I don't need any other feature anyway

Yes, this isn't just about profits for these companies.

It's about control. They want to prove that they own us, and they're right more often than not because of useful idiots.

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

Some CEO: gasp GUYS I found a new blacklisted word! Quick add non-profit to the Ai-Moderation. How dare they not pay me infinitely!