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.