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
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
“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
@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
