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GitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slop (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 13 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

quite amazing that (a) Microsoft basically bought open source with GitHub (b) and are now trying to fuck it up so hard people leave

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Someone should come up with a catchy alliterative name for this tactic of incorporating competing ideas in Microsoft product family, augmenting them with their own proprietary crap and pulling the rug after achieving lock-in. Maybe call it AAA for "Adopt, add on, annihilate".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

They call it BOGU