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GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

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Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

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The lack of market understanding by the person that thought this “feature” was a good idea is staggering. There was never a world where developers would think this is a good idea.

The fact that they chose to publish the ad _under someone else's name_ is so tone deaf that I just can't understand what they were thinking.

Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

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post #152

I guess it's time to consider ditching GitHub. Everything that are purchased by Microsoft ware destined to be rotten.

even aside from this, their reliability has been absolutely terrible since they took it over. it's down so often we had to setup slack notifications directly to the devs to try to take some of the pressure off our ops teams.

they must be migrating it to hyper-v or something. brutal.

Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

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post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I loathe that quote I thought this quote was a direct invocation of Howl / Ginsberg, “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness”. Seen in that light I think there’s another layer to it.

At a certain point, quotes (like any other part of language) get a new meaning, sometimes the opposite of what they originally stood for. Like any popular saying, whatever they were in reference to is forgotten and they stand and are interpreted on their own. It doesn’t matter what the quote used to invoke if no one using it is thinking of the invocation.

A nice attribute of discussion is the opportunity to see references and quotes through the eyes of other people, perhaps especially if the interpretation is novel.

Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

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Calling advertisements "product tips" as if everybody is too stupid to understand what that means. They created an amazing technology that oftentimes is indistinguishable from magic and then use it to deliver ads and - sorry about the tangent - kill people. This really is the quote of the century: > The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads What a waste.

These people could invent actual AGI, and the only thing they could think to do with it is push ads.

Re: GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

#180
The play was to use AI as an opportunity to quietly insert adverts into a platform full of paying users.

The moment your company starts playing a pauper and enshitificating the products I already pay for, is the moment I stop giving you any money at all. Try it. I’m not paying you money so you can try to make more money from me. Either add value and convince me to pay more, or fuck off.

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