of all the awful things AI is doing and will be doing to society, killing centralized code hosting and social media will be its shinniest moments, both deserve to die painful deaths

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idiotsecant 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, the terrible sin of ... Hosting code where people can find it

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icase 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

hosting code where people can find it is the reason LLMs can write code, so we kind of screwed ourselves there…

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exe34 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How did people do it before github? Did everyone write everything with peek and poke?

	▲	kuboble an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Private people would keep their code locally and share the snapshot of the code using any file sharing or hosting option available. Companies had been hosting their own CVS or later svn servers.
	▲	doubled112 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Sourceforge