I never liked it for one reason: people use it to virtue signal to potential employers that they've been active in open source and have worked diligently on various side-projects. Whilst there's nothing wrong with that, it gets tricky when the person is over-involved with GitHub, since GitHub has many metrics people try to game, and GitHub does 'gamification' style tactics to keep users hooked.
It's basically social media, but for code. If people just calmed down a bit and stopped trying to earn badges and keep their contributions graph green, that would be great.
> AI Problems: I'll mention this briefly just because I think it's unethical. (...) I think Copilot is a fun tool that you should use if you're hacking together something that exists already.
> Even though I really think Github is an unethical company... I'm sticking with them anyways.
This piece says more about the author's very flexible ethics than GitHub's. Honestly this was very cringy.
For most places in the USA, you literally don't have a choice of ISP. For Git hosting platforms, you do, and I find it weird to write an article stating all the reasons you don't want to use a service, but conclude that you'll use it anyway as long as it's convenient.
The AI paragraph is particularly weird, since it states that "it's unethical" and in the next sentence that "Copilot is a fun tool that you should use".
It feels like the author was made aware of those complaints by somebody else, does not really understand or care about them, and wrote this blog as a sort of justification to keep using it. It is really strange.
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> Even though I really think Github is an unethical company... I'm sticking with them anyways.
This piece says more about the author's very flexible ethics than GitHub's. Honestly this was very cringy.
The AI paragraph is particularly weird, since it states that "it's unethical" and in the next sentence that "Copilot is a fun tool that you should use".
It feels like the author was made aware of those complaints by somebody else, does not really understand or care about them, and wrote this blog as a sort of justification to keep using it. It is really strange.