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Would AI be better CEO's? They would cost a lot less and probably make better decisions. Just saying.
A CEO's main job is to spout bullshit, which is also AI's particular talent.
So, yes?
I am convinced AI could replace CEO's very easily. Making decisions based on trends and lots of data is an easy use case. And if it's the wrong decision who cares? CEO's also don't take and responsibility at all. AI is also a very good lair too.
And now we understand why MSFT buying github a some years back was a really big deal actually, and not just some kind of mostly neutral, generic expansionary business move.
Moved from github to gitlab when it was acquired by Microsoft. Moved from gitlab to codeberg last month because I don't need a behemoth with dozens of services I never use to store my 3 shitty code files.
Broke: selfhost Forgejo (what Codeberg runs on, for those who don't know) because nobody looks at my code anyway
Woke: access my Git repo directly through SSH because I don't need any other feature anyway
If those are my two options...start looking for my projects on Codeberg I guess.
Can this guy really be considered a CEO if GitHub is a fully owned subsidiary of Microsoft?
You know Microsoft, the company that is heavily invested in OpenAI and is spending hundreds of billions to try to make AI happen?
It's funny how so many people make big businesses and think they are the GOAT when in reality the true GOAT is Linus Torvalds.
The Github CEO didn't even "make" the big business. He was appointed by Microsoft after they purchased it and their first pick for CEO of Github resigned after 2 years.
Expectation: High quality code done quickly by AI.
Reality: Low quality AI generated bug reports being spammed in the hopes the spammers can get bug bounty for fixing them, with AI of course.
He probably spent millions of his owe money on AI stocks.
Considering he's a Microsoft employee and Microsoft is leaning hard into the AI craze? His stock options are all dependent on this lol
This makes me want it to fail harder.
Aight Imma head out
"Managing agents to achieve outcomes may sound unfulfilling to many"
No shit, man.
Sounds like a desperate tactic to show value to investors who are skeptical of all the insane level of cap ex... not to mention all the customers who don't want to pay for this garbage
Part of the joke is who even constitutes "value investors". As the MAG7 bloat the S&P, it's increasingly just a handful of companies passing the same dollar back and forth as fast as possible, with the expectation that they'll get bailed out by the Feds when the game is up.
Sad thing is, they're probably right. Trump's trying to get the Fed to loosen rates on the heels of an inflationary wave in order to guarantee enough exit liquidity before the market crashes.
Then we'll get another brutal privatization wave, with conservatives preaching deficit hawkery in order to justify abolishing Medicare, SS, national parks, public education, anything that can be liquidated for a quick buck.
real messages: embrace AI, because i still need to grift from investor's money, because AI is just a hype"
They are so desperate to push this and it's pretty obvious why. Companies have dumped hundreds of millions of dollars into AI like it was going to revolutionize literally everything and are now forcing it on people to make up for the fact that they were wrong. Don't get me wrong, AI has its uses, but their whole "solution for everything" mentality is really starting to backfire and they are just trying to make a profit off their investments. Basically "we spent way more money on this than we should have so you better use it or else."
Edit: In addition, every company is trying to be the one that's on top when the bubble pops which is only making it bigger and last longer which will only make it worse when it does actually pop. It's a problem they created and are sustaining themselves, and if they back out now it could be just as catastrophic as letting the bubble pop.
I don’t trust Copilot to make basic suggestions, let alone edits, on an html file.
If they intend to pay me the same amount to work slower and think less, that's their choice and I will be happy to help them out pursuing it. ChatGPT, explain to my boss how I'm using AI for everything I work on now.
Guy who runs waning AI service (Copilot, currently being eaten by Claude Code and Qwen Coder) says use his AI service or you’ll be out of a job.
Is his message: “let us scrape your code or go away, and we gonna scrape it anyway” note: scrape = steal
Guess I'm migrating my code to a different service then 🤷♂️
does "embracing AI" means replacing all these execs with it? or is it "too far"?
This is [...] 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.
Very insightful for me to read this. If AI in its present state was as useful as it is advertised, it wouldn't need such apocalyptic language.
I got out when Microsoft bought it, glad I did. I don't want you training your shitty AI on my shitty code.
TIL Github has a CEO.
Risky talking down to developers. Does the CEO not know that Git is like REALLY easy to move?!
Message to Github CEO: your job is one thing AI is best at.
Microsoft mouthpiece parrots Microsoft talking point. News at eight.
what a piece of shit. par for the course for a ceo though.
