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   jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 06:19:29 JST jwz

   "Your GitHub account now includes free use of GitHub Copilot"
   LOL get fucked

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     Steinar Bang (steinarb@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 06:20:51 JST Steinar Bang

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     (my exact thought on receiving the same email)

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     Ainsley Lowbeer (ainsleylowbeer@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 06:23:01 JST Ainsley Lowbeer

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     @jwz I should like to know why this is bad. Genuine query.

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 06:24:25 JST jwz

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     • Ainsley Lowbeer

     @AinsleyLowbeer If, in this, the Year of Our Dystopia 2024, you still don't know why Spicy Autocomplete is Bad, the only thing I have to say to you is *plonk*

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     Ainsley Lowbeer (ainsleylowbeer@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 06:25:23 JST Ainsley Lowbeer

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     @jwz That's not a real answer. One must be wary of using any AI response, certainly, but I would like your rationale.

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     Scotty Trees (scottytrees@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 06:39:06 JST Scotty Trees

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     @jwz just opted out of that stupid shit email too

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     Kuba Suder (mackuba@101010.pl)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 06:53:20 JST Kuba Suder

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     • Ainsley Lowbeer

     @AinsleyLowbeer @jwz Obviously any form of AI is Literally Satan, don't you know?

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     madopal (madopal@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 06:58:53 JST madopal

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     @jwz Been forced to use a Windows machine for work for the first time in decades. Damn, they are pulling out every scuzzy anti-pattern for Copilot.
     1. 365 comes up with Copilot selected
     2. Default first app shown on 365 app list, alphabetical or no
     3. If you remove it from your taskbar, only option in menus is to re-pin it

     I'm expecting it to be a default option in every drop down menu, and every time autocomplete gets a 'c', it suggests "copilot."

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     crazyeddie (crazyeddie@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 06:59:53 JST crazyeddie

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     @jwz See...now that's why I won't use Copilot. To think that other people are using an AI trained on the crap I put on my github and threw down on Stackoverflow--I'm not sure weather to laugh or be like sad for them or something.

     I mean...I don't want this shit in my production code: https://github.com/crazy-eddie/arduino_modern/blob/capacities/include/hardware/chip/atmega328p.hpp

     It's cute. It was fun. It actually works and is a massive perf improvement to arduino scetches...but don't do this, please.

     I shudder to think what effect that has on its biases.

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     Daniel Marks (profdc9@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 07:04:21 JST Daniel Marks

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     @jwz I already have a Copilot when I program.

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     bimmer (bimmer@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 07:56:09 JST bimmer

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     @jwz environmental and privacy concerns notwithstanding, I also believe that using copilot and its ilk is cheating yourself out valuable learning opportunities

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 07:59:04 JST jwz

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     • LilyBryght

     @lilybryght The only reason I have or have ever had a GitHub account is because there are other people who have made the poor life choice of having that be the only way to report bugs to them.

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     LilyBryght (lilybryght@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 07:59:05 JST LilyBryght

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     @jwz Pretty much my response when the email dropped.

     Then proceeded with insta-regret feelz for having an GitHub account in the first place.

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     Viss (viss@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 16:28:14 JST Viss

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     @jwz i saw someone say this is microsofts version of 'auto installing a U2 album into the machine'

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     Michael Kohne (mhkohne@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 21:12:09 JST Michael Kohne

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     @jwz I am once again incorrectly surprised that they did this - it seems perfectly obvious that there's no money to be made with this stuff, why the hell do they keep doubling down? At some point the server bills are gonna kick them in the ass.

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     EloPup (elopup@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 21:43:16 JST EloPup

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     @jwz
     Next step: Autopilot!

     We don’t even need to take action anymore 🙄.

     And the autopilots of all the different applications can then battle it out between themselves who gets deeper access to all the personal data…