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GitHub Community Discussions: Past year's top 2 requests are to disable Copilot

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Re: GitHub Community Discussions: Past year's top 2 requests are to disable Copilot

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Post by _Algernon_ »

noobermin wrote: post #4

Can people currently in these companies tell me why the companies are forcing people to use AI? I understand offering as an option, the constant forced opt-ins is leading to obvious fatigue...

They have invested huge amounts in the AI bubble which they have to justify to shareholders and / or investors. The easiest way to do this is to integrate it into existing products which already exists so they can claim millions of daily active users.

Same reason Google has added AI summary to their most used product: search.

Re: GitHub Community Discussions: Past year's top 2 requests are to disable Copilot

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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

noobermin wrote: post #4

Can people currently in these companies tell me why the companies are forcing people to use AI? I understand offering as an option, the constant forced opt-ins is leading to obvious fatigue...

Same reason random companies shipped Web 3.0 and NFTs. They were hoping to make money off it. They're now hoping if they sprinkle some AI pixie dust it will make money. If they're smart they can grab a couple million off the AI bandwagon before it goes bust. Either way they need to keep up with the joneses.

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Post by shmerl »

noobermin wrote: post #4

Can people currently in these companies tell me why the companies are forcing people to use AI? I understand offering as an option, the constant forced opt-ins is leading to obvious fatigue...

After investing a lot of money, bean counters can make things look better on paper if they can say "you see, everyone is using it". Others want to benefit from users actually training their AI. So they'll feed you all kind of party slogans, but they rarely are real motivations.

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Post by rgreekguy »

noobermin wrote: post #4

Can people currently in these companies tell me why the companies are forcing people to use AI? I understand offering as an option, the constant forced opt-ins is leading to obvious fatigue...

Microsoft only forces things, it's not a surprise at this point.

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Post by pjmlp »

noobermin wrote: post #4

Can people currently in these companies tell me why the companies are forcing people to use AI? I understand offering as an option, the constant forced opt-ins is leading to obvious fatigue...

Basically FOMO, and keeping shareholders happy.

We have OKRs for using AI, yet no dev tooling allowed without customer permission in projects delivery.

So you have this ridiculous situation where the only tool devs are allowed to use is CoPilot 365, and pasting/saving code, for those that care about their OKRs.

Re: GitHub Community Discussions: Past year's top 2 requests are to disable Copilot

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Post by iphone_elegance »

noobermin wrote: post #4

Can people currently in these companies tell me why the companies are forcing people to use AI? I understand offering as an option, the constant forced opt-ins is leading to obvious fatigue...

CEO tells CTO to allocate budget towards increasing productivity with AI and this is the asnwer, it's easy to enable and not that expensive to trial

Re: GitHub Community Discussions: Past year's top 2 requests are to disable Copilot

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Post by epolanski »

noobermin wrote: post #4

Can people currently in these companies tell me why the companies are forcing people to use AI? I understand offering as an option, the constant forced opt-ins is leading to obvious fatigue...

Microsoft wants to lock you as soon as possible in their ecosystem for AI-usage?

If they can get the many GH enterprise users to use copilot on their repos, then for Microsoft the future is merely about optimizing their margins while the technology keeps getting better.

Re: GitHub Community Discussions: Past year's top 2 requests are to disable Copilot

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Post by qhwudbebd »

I think it's pretty much policy by now that GitHub don't allow features to be disabled by users who dislike them. Those of us with public projects that don't or can't accept contributions through GH PRs (including niche things like torvalds/linux) have been asking to disable PRs since day 1.
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