I see Microsoft don’t need developers and those who work there are morons. That’s how I read what Github CEO said.
GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.
Submitted 1 day ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8
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vane@lemmy.world 1 day ago
DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 1 day ago
Well, given git is decentralized and self-hostable…
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Curious when the last time business insider quoted a labor leader without a CEO or capitalist shill quoted inn the same article.
DancingBear@midwest.social 16 hours ago
puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
My for-hire work has been off GitHub for awhile now. My patience for VS Code is razor thin with the stupid features creeping in.
20 years ago I decided to make websites as a career and I’ve been loving it—up until the people who want to sell me tools I don’t want start convincing my bosses that I’m somehow less if I don’t get on board with the always-guessing error machine.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 hours ago
Use Codium instead of VS Code. VS Code is fauxpen source.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
I refuse to use C# as a matter of principle at this point.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I can already tell the guy is a huge fan of cheeto prez.
Psaldorn@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The git site has instructions on how to create your own git server in 30 mins.
It’s very easy once you know it’s literally just an SSH account.For personal projects or small teams is absolutely fine.
For open source there are lots of GitHub alternatives
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Git out.
Luci@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Looks like I’ll get out then.
AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Call it the network effect, or the momentum of becoming a staple in the tech community, or whatever; GitHub is here to stay for a while, and the leaders in charge of it are well aware of this.
GitHub has gained enough attention that it is almost impossible to ignore. Projects on GitHub tend to attract a level of engagement (code contributions, issue reports, and feedback) that other code forges do not enjoy.
One unfortunate consequence of this, which I have experienced firsthand very recently, is when recruiters ask for links to my past work or open-source contributions but refuse to accept links to relevant repositories on GitLab. The number of companies where this occurred was significant enough for me to set up mirror repositories on GitHub.
Another frustrating but silly consequence was when I was questioned during one of the interviews why my activity graph on GitHub was empty. I had simply not enabled it.
Korne127@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The problem is the inter-connection to see everything a single person does and their stats. There should be the possibility for a new (decentralized) system in which you can authenticate all your known repositories, no matter whether they’re on GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, self-hosted Gitea or something entirely different. And there you could have links to all your activity and a graph without being bound to any single service.
AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That may be a good idea. However, people have had around two or more decades of familiarity with all things centralised and the conveniences associated with it.
It will take a great amount of time and effort to build a equivalently convenient decentralised alternative and to overcome the inertia to migrate to it.
The latter I believe is only possible when something enormously drastic happens. We had a good number of drastic events happen in the last decade (Twitter poisoning, Meta privacy breaches, Reddit shenanigans), but none enough to convince people to move to alternatives.
Another possibility is for regulations and/or governments to support the alternatives, but that may have unintended side effects of its own.
blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I still remember when some people said Microsoft buying GitHub wouldn’t be a problem in the future.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Thanks for showing your true colors, asshole. I guess the git repositories I have to send potential employers to show the projects that I’ve done in my spare time might have to go self-hosted.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 day ago
welp I guess time to open a codeberg account
ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Time to self host this bitch!
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
Selfhost what? Git? Thats just a version control software. The only reason Github/Gitlab/etc exists is because people wanted a central repo to work from.
tmp0730@programming.dev 20 hours ago
I don’t think this is true. People didn’t want to host their own. It’s a pretty big task that takes time and attention away from other activities. Especially if you want your repo to face the public. Just keeping it secure can be a part-time job.
Perhaps it is becoming more feasible these days.
ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Just in case if you’re on drugs, forgejo.org
ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
……what?
notannpc@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Gargle my balls or get out.
CodeBlooded@programming.dev 21 hours ago
A few years ago, there was potential for dirty looks coming your way if you suggested that you may be using AI for generating code. Soon, it’s going to be frowned upon to boast that you don’t use AI tools (because you’re probably wasting time).
NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Embrace? With so many devs constantly being laid off, how about NO?
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
just saying codeberg and forgejo is right there and doesn't have ai rubbish.
stupe@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Replace the CEOs with AI. Hell, replace all executive positions with AI. Think of the savings!
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
They literally don’t do anything other than have meetings and injest executive level reports.
CEOs are unironically the prime candidates for replacing employees with AI, from a direct cost to employ the employee perspective.
I don’t give LLM AIs much credit, but they are more intelligent than the average CEO.
kokesh@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
… Ok!
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 day ago
CEOs, dude. Some things never change.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Essentially… Leave now, or contribute to training your replacement.
goatinspace@feddit.org 1 day ago
Not using github anyway
eddanja@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t think he’s wrong in some regards, but only in the ‘AI looks somewhat promising in our future’. He didn’t need to be condescending about it.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Why do all these idiots behave as if they knew where the future is?
If it’s about all the achievements they’ve read about and seen in games like Civilization, real-life doesn’t quite look like that. Though in some sense these games, though good, have kinda simplified and made degenerate the understanding of the progress by many people. Similarly to what Soviet school program did, but in a more persuasive and pleasant way.
There’s no tech tree. There’s been plenty of attempts at any breakthrough before it actually happened. Suppose this “AI” is to some real future AGI what Leonardo’s machines were to Wright brothers’ machines, even in that case there’s no hurry to embrace it.
If he thinks he’s looking at a 90% achieved tech tree point with powerful perks, then his profession should probably be that of a janitor. Same day schedule, same places to mop up, you know.
Feyd@programming.dev 1 day ago
No u lol
Jaded99@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ah yes, the noble Caveman Coder, hunched over their keyboard like it’s a slab of stone, grunting at a missing semicolon for the past three hours. Meanwhile, the AI user already built the same app, deployed it, A/B tested it, and had time for a coffee break and existential crisis. But no worries, Caveman insists “real coders solve things manually” as they slowly reinvent the wheel… square-shaped, of course. Fire bad. IDE scary. AI tool? “Witchcraft! Burn the witch 🧹
sobchak@programming.dev 23 hours ago
I’ve tried Copilot for a while and played around with Cursor for a bit. I was better and faster without Copilot due to sometimes not paying enough attention of the lines it would generate. This would cause subtle bugs that took a long time to debug. Cursor just produced unmaintainable code-bases that I had no knowledge of, and to make major changes, would be faster for me to just rewrite it from scratch. The act of typing gives me time to think more about what I’m doing or am going to do, while Copilot generations are distracting and break my thought processes. I work best with good LSP tooling and sometimes AI chatbots (mostly just for customized example snippets for libraries or frameworks I’m unfamiliar with; though that has its own problems because the LLMs knowledge is out of date a lot) that don’t directly modify my code.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
And the vibe coder is also blissfully unaware of all the zero days he/she has also deployed along with his prompted autocomplete output of a program.
Great work! Very efficient!
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
is there any script or tool out there that helps automate the mirroring of GH repos to Codeberg (or another forge)? I have 150+ repos, most are archived or outdated, but if I’m migrating I’d like to do with everything.
neblem@lemmy.world 1 day ago
www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/github_to_codeberg has some instructions on how to do a bulk migration using LionyxML’s script. codeberg.org/LionyxML/migrate-github-to-codeberg
mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 day ago
Honestly,I just picked the 10 most used ones, mirrored them for a while, and called it a day. I believe there is processes out there but you may run into Github API restrictions if you do it all at the same time (and/or without a specific token).
tmp0730@programming.dev 21 hours ago
I remember when the barrier to entry as a software developer was the cost of tools like compilers. You had to rely on your school or employer to provide them. Most often, people pirated them. With current AI, pirating is not an option.
In the US, everyone is much more prosperous than they were 50 years ago. They don’t blink about paying $50/month for a personal phone plan. They pay for multiple streaming plans. They have money coming out their ears. So paying $20-100/month might not discourage a lot of would-be vibe coders. But I don’t think this is the case as much in other parts of the world.
Like it or not, agents are shaping up to be important tools. In a world with free IDEs, free forges, free compilers, etc. , the playing field is about to become less level. It’s a bit of a momentum check.
Alaik@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
Everyone is much more prosperous now than 50 years ago?
tmp0730@programming.dev 20 hours ago
tmp07 In the US? Yes. Absolutely.
z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
Damn, Microsoft rolling out the “Fuck You” hits lately. Allowing hate speech against Transgender people on LinkedIn, and now this shit on Github, not even mentioning the absolute bullshit their Desktop is these days.
Never been a better time to be eying alternatives. Fuck you Github CEO, fuck you LinkedIn, fuck you Microsoft, and fuck you Satya Nadella! 🖕🖕🖕🖕
frostysauce@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Don’t forget they are committed to assisting Israel commit genocide in Gaza.