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My only push back would be on the FREE part. I coulda bought that 5 years ago. Now I look at GitHub and go, "if the product is free, it's because Im the product
by tcmart14 27d ago
My only push back would be on the FREE part. I coulda bought that 5 years ago. Now I look at GitHub and go, "if the product is free, it's because Im the product" with all their co-pilot stuff.
- altcognito 27d agoAnother fair take. I mean, hell, a lot of companies are bought literally just for their user lists (to sell new products to). I can't think of a nicer user list than a list of potential developers.
- tcmart14 27d agoMy guess is, user list would be the least. Microsoft has this thing about getting you all warm and snug because they have a solution for everything. Need an IDE? VS Code and VS proper. Got your hosting needs (azure). Literally everything. You wanna build applications around AI. We got you too, along with the VCS to keep your app in and pipelines. Hey, go ahead and send us your data so your AI application is better because you're really just calling our models. Right, and this goes even further. Data is incredibly valuable. And here we are, now paying companies to vacuum up all our data. Every last bit. And I am just seeing GitHub as another way to get people in the door to do just that. Probably the biggest thing that has me dumbfounded about everything in the AI space and the tooling in GitHub and stuff with co-pilot. They've figured out a way to make us pay them to steal all our valuable data. And to package it up all nice for them with a bow on it and not question it.