Discussion · bonfire.cafe

GitHub CEO: Embrace AI or get out.

https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8

PS. Here’s where to go: @Codeberg

(As an additional bonus, you’ll have the peace of mind of knowing you’re part of an anti-fascist not-for-profit cooperative instead of a trillion-dollar US corporation that’s helping Israel commit genocide.)

#git #sourceControl #revisionControl #GitHub #Codeberg #dev #AI #BigTech #Microsoft #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

Darren

@dplattsf@sfba.social replied · 19 hours ago

@aral @Codeberg also ..

https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/

Malcontent Creator :grr:

@geist@eldritch.cafe replied · yesterday

@aral what a depressing read, that « blog post ». These people have no vision and believe in nothing, so they are bound to prey on the living.
@Codeberg

Aral Balkan

@aral@mastodon.ar.al replied · 17 hours ago

@geist @Codeberg It’s what vampires do.

Daniël Franke :panheart:

@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu replied · 17 hours ago

@aral @geist @Codeberg Vampires are at least attractive and cultured (depending on the version)... So I'm not sure if that's a fair comparison.

ramblingsteve

@ramblingsteve@floss.social replied · yesterday

@aral @Codeberg me thinks the tech bro doth protest too much! If his product is so great then why does he need to force his customers to use it? This isn't an industrial revolution; it's a cargo cult.

Three plus or minus five

@ThreeSigma@mastodon.online replied · yesterday

@aral @Codeberg
Can anyone recommend similar services for private repos? I have a half-dozen private projects I want to keep in the cloud, and I want my resume hosted on a static site.

Ideally something that runs forgejo, since we're using that for work, and hosted outside the US because <waves arms>.

Sourcehut looks neat, but not sure it's mature yet.

The Psychotic Network Ferret

@nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe replied · yesterday

@aral @Codeberg They can't get people to use it on its merits because it doesn't have any. So now they have moved onto trying to force the issue.

This is gonna go great for them./s

Jack Nutting

@JackNutting@mastodon.nu replied · yesterday

@aral @Codeberg How surprising that the CEO of a Microsoft company would have such a know-it-all, exclusionary attitude! Oh, did I say "surprising", I meant "typical"

Jakob Christensen

@t4rzsan@mastodon.sdf.org replied · yesterday

@aral
@davidgerard did you see this?

Fred Beat

@fred@feedbeat.me replied · yesterday

@aral @Codeberg Codeberg Rocks! Using it all the time. 💛

jon crowcroft

@tforcworc@todon.nl replied · yesterday

@aral @Codeberghttps://fishcalledbush.blogspot.com/2025/08/with-gods-on-our-side.html

leberschnitzel

@leberschnitzel@existiert.ch replied · 2 days ago

@aral I've pushed the move to @Codeberg too long now already. Now I've put a date in my calendar to finally do it!

Aral Balkan

@aral@mastodon.ar.al replied · yesterday

@leberschnitzel @Codeberg 👍

Claudius

@claudius@darmstadt.social replied · 2 days ago

@aral @Codeberg My Github Profile now looks like this:

https://github.com/ccoenen/

Aral Balkan

@aral@mastodon.ar.al replied · yesterday

@claudius @Codeberg Nice :)

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉

@djoerd@idf.social replied · yesterday

@aral @claudius @Codeberg Nice! This is mine: https://github.com/djoerd

Wind (Vējš)

@WindOfChange@mastodon.online replied · 2 days ago

@aral @Codeberg
Ahh, so that AI sh** isn't selling as good as projected. Noted.

GhostOnTheHalfShell

@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai replied · 2 days ago

@aral @Codeberg

That does beg the question of how many open source projects I mean significant ones will need to consider moving their code bases to an entirely different repository

Filippo Gonteri

@Has_Been@mastodon.social replied · 2 days ago

@aral @Codeberg
Merci @Codeberg
https://codeberg.org

stony kark

@aapis@mastodon.world replied · 2 days ago

@aral @Codeberg if any of it was a good idea, even in theory, I’d still be a software dev. AI wasn’t the only reason I left, but it was the loudest. Enjoy your temporary shareholder dividends or whatever, Tom.

Cody Boone Ferguson

@xexyl@fosstodon.org replied · 2 days ago

@aral @Codeberg he is a bloody idiot. He doesn’t even know what #AI is! He means #LLM. LLM generates buggy code and often doesn’t even compile. Often it is not portable. It is non deterministic. That alone should say everything. The AI craze is the tech Frankenstein and it’s a giant scam. I wouldn’t worry about what someone who clearly doesn’t know what he’s talking about let alone his arse from his elbow is talking about. AI my arse.

Cody Boone Ferguson

@xexyl@fosstodon.org replied · 2 days ago

@aral @Codeberg and someone should start a list of all the broken code LLM has generated and link back to his post. Maybe I should. Just a matter of finding the time. He doesn’t have a bloody clue. It’s just noise from a person who clearly doesn’t know much about programming if he knows anything about it at all.

Toni Aittoniemi

@gimulnautti@mastodon.green replied · 2 days ago

@aral @Codeberg If you’re against them stealing from you, you’re against ”progress”.

Sound like progress in a direction I don’t want to go to!

Michael Eggers 🇺🇦🇪🇺

@pythno@mastodon.gamedev.place replied · 2 days ago

@aral @Codeberg Original Blogpost is here: https://ashtom.github.io/developers-reinvented

Michael Eggers 🇺🇦🇪🇺

@pythno@mastodon.gamedev.place replied · 2 days ago

@aral @Codeberg Haha. Yeah, I started to move to sourcehut and it is great. Sure, not as flashy but it works really well and the devs are no evil fuckfaces as the microsoft people are.

Dźwiedziu

@dzwiedziu@mastodon.social replied · 2 days ago

@aral
It took me 5 seconds to find tools to migrate your repos (not posting, as I don't have the space to test them).

I was however looking for something to make a more formal–ish fork of a repo on GH to CB, except just uploading the code and making a note “forked from: ” (maybe that's enough, I'm not forking often).

@Codeberg

Eric Eggert

@yatil@yatil.social replied · 2 days ago

@aral @Codeberg I love that it’s 22 random developers (or devs that are on his payroll and would say anything that their boss wants them to say?), so the source is basically: Trust me, tech bro.

It’s all so bizarre.

RecurringBloatware

@RecurringBloatware@mastodon.social replied · 2 days ago

@aral @Codeberg While I understand that people have gravitated to AI because of the mess that is <insert-development-ecosystem>, there is always an alternative. It's just not AI.

For example, people who are tearing their hair off because ReactJS, for example, perhaps check out VanJS? Pure JS, 200 lines of code, no DSL nonsense, can be run without tooling, integrates well with SSR/SSG/CSR/whatev-the-fuck exists, and can also be used as a vendor-neutral library for web components.

thinkbeforecoding

@thinkb4coding@mastodon.social replied · 2 days ago

@aral @Codeberg if they have to resort to menace an shovel it into everyone's throat... this says a lot about the state of this technology and how much developers actually want to use it.