man anxiously, desperately trying to sell snake oil insists that the people who refuse to drink snake oil are the real weirdos https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8
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@beep this is why I moved all my repos to #codeberg. Similar issue to #stackexchange stealing the contributions. You aren't slaves, just leave these trash corporate sires.
@beep This reminds me of the 1960s comic book villain trope where a Lex Luthor type would build a giant robot that wrecks half of downtown so that he can rob a bank. And, like, if that was the point, and the technology was sound, then he'd be home quietly amassing a fortune for himself instead of making an ass of himself threatening people...
@beep
Fuck, now I'm gonna get forced out of retirement in a few years because I'm one of the generation of programmers who actually knows how to code!
@beep "Bye, Felicia..."
@beep Wow. There's an awful lot of Utter bollocks to unpack there. "Creative Directors of code" a particular highlight. No way anyone calls themself *that*.
@beep
1) «Get out» but keep practicing coding
2) Watch the vibe-coding chaos from the outside
3) Get hired by desperate companies to fix the messes made
4) Profit!
1) «Get out» but keep practicing coding
2) Watch the vibe-coding chaos from the outside
3) Get hired by desperate companies to fix the messes made
4) Profit!
@beep I’ve already moved my repos over to GitLab, happy to have left that AI-infested platform 🤓😁
@beep
I’ll use it like I use Lombok…as a tool.
@beep oooooh that explains a few things i've been seeing. Ugh I really need to get off GitHub.
@beep the only person that needs to get out is the CEO. I’m sure their Ai is probably stealing everyone’s code to “train” on.
@beep
That's just stupid, so many devs are more likely to remove all their work from github and just leave then comply with this.
@beep
I've worked my entire adult life: over 15000 days straight without unemployment. In all those days I've always been a doer, not a director - even when the job was being a director. I'm very hands on. I still don't know what it is about those who cannot do anything that gets them all on the same wagon shouting, "This will revolutionize the thing I could never do and really don't understand!" The best explanation I've heard for this type of mob mentality is, "They don't know what they don't know."
@beep Do we still get dinner after the service if we don't profess a love for your deity, or is that only for believers?
@beep look man, I haven't even embraced a proper IDE. Sometimes I feel like emacs is too much. I'm not going to start using AI code generation any time soon.
@beep So this is the fallout from m$ taking them over. It was a long time coming, but it had to come.
@beep Being a shepherd to "agents" that generate code is not developing code, That's designer role. And that's not what I signed up for. I've been bashing bits for a metric shit ton of years and I will bash bits until I die.
@beep I’m convinced that the future will be one half of the planet living like the Amish & the other half will be running from their customized T 1000s.
@beep fuck this piece of shit lol
@beep AI makes you smell.
@beep Dude gets paid by Microsoft so of course he will say crazy stuff that serves his master
@beep getting out right now.
@beep I'll get out, get out to codeberg.org
@beep
Well, given the clear choice, out sounds good to me!
Well, given the clear choice, out sounds good to me!
@beep OMG what is this 'Embrace or get out" mania, it's everywhere!
Long lost are the days of adoption strategies and adoption incentives. After they fired all the marketing and go to market strategists, the only brain cell remaining was the "my way or the highway" one!?
@beep
Bye bye GitHub, it's been real.
Bye bye GitHub, it's been real.
@beep "This is the latest example of a strange marketing strategy by AI companies. Instead of selling products based on helpful features and letting users decide, executives often deploy scare tactics that essentially warn people they will become obsolete if they don't get on the AI bandwagon."
All said.
@beep
AI fanatics are like Jim Jones cultists; willing to murder to get their way.
https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/jonestown-13-things-you-should-know-about-cult-massacre-121974/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/jonestown/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid
AI data centers are thwarting an urgently necessary fossil fuel phase out. A billion will die of famine if we don't act on democracy, climate, & regulate energy hogs like AI.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/trump-ai-oil-energy-summit
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/environment-impact-generative-ai-artificial-intelligence/
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-warn-1-billion-people-on-track-to-die-from-climate-change
@beep Microwave salesman is gonna microwave salesman.
@beep
“Assimilate or Be Assimilated, Resistance is futile.”
Eerie & depressing that it’s come to this. And a vast majority of developers who know better still remain locked in.
“Assimilate or Be Assimilated, Resistance is futile.”
Eerie & depressing that it’s come to this. And a vast majority of developers who know better still remain locked in.
@beep The CEO is welcome to leave. Developers develop. They don't expect a dodgy autocomplete feature to do the work.
@beka_valentine @beep ah yes, github, the company owned by microsoft, the company that funded openAI’s initial explosion onto the scene with [checks notes] azure credits
@beep me, watching people code with AI: no. that’s not how that works. that’s not how any of this works
@beep Globant just went ahead and fired a whole lot of people: they are transitioning to snake oil consulting.
Drink the snake oil until we no longer need you.
@beep @jaredwhite Please let's start an exodus!
I have an org on GitHub intended to host tools to help people leave.
https://github.com/GHExit
I am a member of a group on GitLab intended for the same:
https://gitlab.com/upend/github
@beep @jaredwhite
I'd love to reduce the tight integration of RubyGems with GitHub, but it seems to be going in the opposite direction:
https://github.com/rubygems/guides/pull/391#issuecomment-3161185727
I'd love to reduce the tight integration of RubyGems with GitHub, but it seems to be going in the opposite direction:
https://github.com/rubygems/guides/pull/391#issuecomment-3161185727
@beep Good synopsis!
@heydon it was just the SWEATIEST pitch
@beep Venn diagram that's a circle:
* People who told you knowing all the codes, in all the languages, and writing them really, really fast was the only way to get along in the industry
* People now telling you knowing actual code is for losers
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