A developer caught Copilot adding promotional "tips" to code descriptions, highlighting a messy new era of AI slop.
  • [object Object]@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    This is fucking hilarious.

    It rewrites the description so unless you view the in app edit history it looks like you are endorsing this ad!

    Who the fuck shipped this lol

  • Breezy@sopuli.xyz
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    6 months ago

    I really wish more FOSS projects would move off of GitHub. It feels wrong just having an account just so I can contribute. Hopefully horrible “features” like this encourages others to migrate.

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      > Decentralized protocol implemented by Torvalds himself
      > Community gravitates around one decent website
      > Microsoft buys that website

      This is why we can’t have nice things.

  • SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev
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    6 months ago

    They were successful because of VC funding, we were doomed from the start. VCs want one thing and one thing only, to back a Unicorn. Nothing else matters to them.