David Gerardthe most heartwarming subreddit at this moment https://www.reddit.com/r/GithubCopilot/
in space, EVERYONE can hear them scream
:: Asta ::GitHub Copilot became unusable for individual devs after the usage-based billing change — what are the real alternatives ?? well, I've got a suggestion for an alternative, but I don't think they're gonna like it (it's called "code your own fucking program without stolen labor")
@davidgerard lmao OH MY GOD
meatlammaWe are all in the same boat here. Github was basically paying us in tokens for the last six months while we helped them to iron out the agent kinks and wrinkles. Now we are no longer needed, so we are all basically fired. Also, from what I've seen so far: nothing will come even close to what we had with GHCP.jesus fucking christ. if only there was a word to describe this, but alas, I suppose asking copilot for the appropriate word is just out of their price range now...
@davidgerard I'm sure all the people Microsoft actually fired/laid off cough cough myself cough cough in their horseshit AI race are going to feel tons of empathy for this take.
Cavyherd"Alex, I'll take 'schadenfreude' for a hundred...."
@cavyherd @davidgerard it's so, so, so good : D
@davidgerard @cavyherd and of course, the responses in this github thread about the changes show zero self awareness
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/197089
but also I DO have to limit the amount of joy I can take, because at some point I'm crossing the line from "taking joy at people who fucked over a lot of people having a cold dose of relatively harmless reality thrown in their face" to "there are so many things out there that suggest this is addiction based so this is really addicts having a source taken away and even if, for boosters, that's probably just, it doesn't mean I can continue to feel good about taking joy in it."
... awwww fuck. Bleh.
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/197089
but also I DO have to limit the amount of joy I can take, because at some point I'm crossing the line from "taking joy at people who fucked over a lot of people having a cold dose of relatively harmless reality thrown in their face" to "there are so many things out there that suggest this is addiction based so this is really addicts having a source taken away and even if, for boosters, that's probably just, it doesn't mean I can continue to feel good about taking joy in it."
... awwww fuck. Bleh.
@davidgerard @cavyherd (don't get me wrong; just because I find myself sympathetic to some people who seem to be having a strong emotional reaction to having it taken away doesn't mean my position on anything is changed. I just... reading some of the reactions in that github thread... well, I need more coffee).
There are certain grim advantages to having grown up in an alcoholic family, not least being a deep suspicion of any new fads that everyone is getting excited about.
I'm probably the latest of late adopters—just this side of being downright Amish—& this has saved me grief more times than I can count.
It also leaves me on the sidelines, watching the Sturm & Drang with a certain amount of, shall we say, bemusement.
I will quite unresearvedly gloat at the misery incurred by the decision-makers who put these systems in place, & by the managers who drank the cool-aid & bought in.
For the users—? A weary sigh. This is not our first rodeo, although it does look like they've speed-run the enshittification cycle. It's probably a spiritual demerit to point out that if they'd thought about it, like, •at all•, they might have seen this coming? >>
We'd probably be much better at managing addictive patterns if they didn't also tend to be so damn profitable.
@cavyherd @davidgerard for real (and same). Not all these people were given much of a choice in whether they started using LLMs, either. I'm trying to remember whether Microsoft had been informed about the potentially addictive nature or not (potentially as in "I don't know if any research has been done it but it seems to have a lot of similarities to addiction"). The only thing I can find re: their old, long since axed "AI ethics" team, is... well, that they were all axed right when microsoft and openai signed that deal and started with the AI results shit.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/amid-bing-chat-controversy-microsoft-cut-an-ai-ethics-team-report-says/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/amid-bing-chat-controversy-microsoft-cut-an-ai-ethics-team-report-says/
"Butbutbut—there are profits to be made!!?!"
Yeah, who am I kidding? Forethought was never going to happen.