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GitHub has been a growing disappointment for quite a while. 1. GitHub itself isn't opensource despite being the opensource forge. 2. Microsoft (of all compani
by bitbasher 1y ago
GitHub has been a growing disappointment for quite a while.
1. GitHub itself isn't opensource despite being the opensource forge.
2. Microsoft (of all companies) acquired it.
3. Microsoft pushes VSCode and kills GitHub's Atom.
4. GitHub employees are quite political (master branch rename, ICE protest resignations, etc).
5. GitHub striking down repositories and user accounts (the Russian developer, yt-dlp, etc).
6. LLMs trained on public and private code without consent or opting in.
7. GitHub forcing AI agents in pull requests and in various pages on GitHub.
8. GitHub's CEO resigning and now in more of Microsoft's AI control.
I left back when GitHub was acquired by Microsoft. I wondered if it was a mistake for me to leave, but.. I haven't regretted it yet.
- zemo 1y ago> GitHub employees are quite political (master branch rename, ICE protest resignations, etc). ah ok so the politics of power aren't of interest to you > LLMs trained on public and private code without consent or opting in. ah ok so the politics of power ARE of interest to you what's goin on here man
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- giancarlostoro 1y agoYou're comparing politics regarding actual political events and private code being scraped without opt-in or permission being requested, what is going on here indeed man.
- giancarlostoro 1y ago> 3. Microsoft pushes VSCode and kills GitHub's Atom. Zed was born as a result, which is drastically better. Zed tried to go into the AI thing, then made it possible to use it without any AI stuff, which is good.
- bitbasher 1y agoIf I could trade Zed for Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub, I'd give up Zed. We lost way more than we gained. Yes-- Zed allows you to disable the AI now. However, you still can't remove the GitHub login button on the editor. What's up with that?
- giancarlostoro 1y agoI see the endless potential of Zed, and it has no specific corporate shackles.
- Rapzid 1y agoAtom was terrible and Microsoft had the talent to build a performant IDE. That's what happened to Atom.