Steven HarmanWhen GitHub jumped the shark…
Aaron Patterson ✅@stevenharman This must be a joke. I lol'd
Rachael L@tenderlove @stevenharman It, uh, seems like maybe it is not a joke. Some of the same phrasing in this post: https://github.blog/2023-11-08-universe-2023-copilot-transforms-github-into-the-ai-powered-developer-platform/
Noah Gibbs@r343l @tenderlove @stevenharman
Yeah. Hope it's a joke. Don't see the Xeet on his Xitter. But seems very plausible based on other stuff around the launch.
And yeah, as folks say here, Microsoft appears to be going all-in on AI.
@codefolio @r343l @tenderlove it’s here: https://x.com/ashtom/status/1722313836798320715 and was also Posted on the #GitHub main Xitter feed.
Thomas Dohmke on X
Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot. From the GA of Copilot Chat, to the new Copilot Enterprise, to the Copilot Partner Program and so much more – we are expanding and infusing Copilot into every aspect of GitHub. https://t.co/cRLqmYeu15
@stevenharman @r343l @tenderlove
Well, GitHub had a good run.
@codefolio @r343l @tenderlove Something I've been thinking about: If there weren’t VCs and The Market™️ so thirsty for growth-at-all-costs, would all of these companies really be going so hard after “AI?”
I suspect not. There would (and should) be some investment there, but the current trend feels like a wild over-reaction/grab.
Maybe I'm wrong… it's happened before.
@stevenharman @r343l @tenderlove
Hard to say. I think there's a *fierce* worry about being made obsolete by AI. I think companies are worried that, if AI produces some giant revolution, that they'll be left useless by the wayside.
(Not unlikely that they lose even if they've been in the AI game too, but it's imaginable that their odds are better if they've been doing it from early on.)
But I think it's truly driven less by greed and more by fear right now, despite the PR messages.
@stevenharman @r343l @tenderlove
And it's not 100% certain that they're wrong.
Only, like, 95% likely that they're wrong.
Javier@stevenharman @codefolio @r343l @tenderlove normal technological bubble, no? The previous one was bitcoin, and it goes all the way back to the train... it's the way of the world.
The Long Tail
Evan Light
Microsoft 2023 Keynote but AI
@tenderlove @stevenharman Oh, wait. I have a gif for AI
Matt@tenderlove I did not laugh, but my face did end up in my palms.
Sam Saffron
@samsaffron @tenderlove that 4th paragraph just nails it. Non-founder execs thirsty for a way to show their “impact.”
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)@stevenharman WTAF 😳
I'm quite satisfied having *never* used Copilot, and probably never will.
Ken Kinder 
@stevenharman @tenderlove Reminds me of 90s Microsoft announcing interneting was so important to Windows that your file manager and web browser were now the SAME APPLICATION, just called Explorer.
Martin Hamilton
To the lifeboats! 
Larry Garfield@stevenharman Hm. This might be time to migrate to GitLab...
Mike Garrahan@Crell Who now call themselves "the AI-powered DevSecOps Platform?"
アイアンハンドガンダム
Sam Wronski@stevenharman yikes. That's one hell of a pivot from open source...
keith@stevenharman All your base IP are belong to us.
KaylaI guess it's time to download archives of all of my starred repositories "just in case" 😒
Tony Fisk@stevenharman how git turned version control (a moderately complex activity) into a very complex activity while becoming wildly popular will be a tale to tell!