I was with you until your comment about vibe coders. Microsoft paid for and brought this vibe coding hell upon themselves. GitHub Copilot, investment in/partnership with OpenAI, and everything else they’ve done to enshitify software and the internet.

If it brings them down, they’ve only themselves to blame. More likely it’ll just hasten the end of free public repos, which will be a shame, but we’ll find other ways to share code that aren’t reliant on one semi-benevolent megacorp.

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tonymet 7 hours ago | parent [-]

The smothering would happen with or without Copilot. This just sounds like an excuse to be ungrateful .

I hope GitHub shuts down free tier , maybe developers will finally be grateful .

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EdNutting 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I’m grateful for GitHub and their support for open source, but they’re not getting any sympathy for the AI mess they’re generating (and they’re contributing more to the mess than many other organisations, due to their size, position and product strategy).

They’re a big enough corporation that we can have nuanced feelings about them. Simultaneously grateful for one part of what they do, and unsympathetic for the consequences of a different part of what they do.

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tonymet 6 hours ago | parent [-]

true colors.

	▲	EdNutting 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Mmm, you’ve shown yours too.