This was inevitable and going towards the direction, but it is sad to see this part of CoreAI division. Copilot and other AI initiatives should not be the primary driver of GitHub's vision.

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__turbobrew__ 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Github may have more value as the largest software training corpus in the world than as a paid VCS, and Microsoft gets to uniquely utilize that as they will have non rate limited internal APIs and/or dumps to train on.

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AlexandrB 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

I assume they already had those APIs - Github was already owned by Microsoft. By prioritizing AI feature over the core experience it's possible that Github stops being the largest software training corpus in the future.

	▲	tonyhart7 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		I assume they would make other major company to have an github integration out of the box so it would be feeding off itself from "vibe coder" an have an singularity generated corpus around AI tooling

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tremon 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This -- Github's future is as a training source for Microsoft's AI products, and as a honeypot for collecting more training data.

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martin-t 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You're looking at it from a developer's POV. Your goals are a quality product that helps you with your work.

Microsoft's goal is to make money by making software or ~~selling~~ renting services. You are a cost center.

And what do managers do to cost centers? They outsource them, either to artificial "intelligence" or actual Indians.

By plagiarizing stolen code, disregarding its original license, they hope to make the former actually work.