- cross-posted to:
- hackernews
- Technology@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- hackernews
- Technology@programming.dev
Among the software developers who use Microsoft’s GitHub, the most popular community discussion in the past 12 months has been a request for a way to block Copilot, the company’s AI service, from generating issues and pull requests in code repositories.
The second most popular discussion – where popularity is measured in upvotes – is a bug report that seeks a fix for the inability of users to disable Copilot code reviews.
I’m not sure I understand the people in the thread advocating for the feature; they’re asking Microsoft to not have features that are hostile to the users?
If the managers have decided they don’t want you, and they only want vibe coders and to force AI hype on you, why would you do their job for them and try to persuade them to keep their monopoly…
Just accept that it’s bad and go somewhere else; 😕 the fact that people are used to using github and that “it’s what everyone uses”, doesn’t mean that people should stay there forever, or that Microsoft would care about the feature requests people make; stop threatening to leave or comparing github to codeberg etc, and just go create a codeberg account and start
git pushing there today 🤔 (And maybe keep the github projects but only use them as mirrors for accepting PRs etc)(I’m not saying this in a hostile way; but I really think the solution is to just go and do sth else about, it instead of trying to reason with Microsoft)
before leaving github, it is better for them to ensure that their code on github cannot be used to train AI.
I promise you that it’s far too late for that.
How about replacing it with some random mumbling? >:) They don’t care to sanitize their data.
that’s what I did when I moved my stuff to codeberg and my private forgejo instance. I knew deleting the repos on github wasn’t going to do anything, they would likely still have them. so I just pushed a bunch of claude code AI slop into all of them. let Microsoft’s AI gorge itself on the waste from Anthropics. Literally just opened up a Claude Code CLI and had it do a bunch of absolutely dumb crap and when it’d get confused and say “this isn’t right” I would correct it and say “no, NO! you’re completely right! keep going!”
It was actually kinda fun. like teaching a kid to ride a bike wrong on purpose.
it might work just don’t delete your github account, since they have another baclup.
Just keep it and do a few commits a year at least to make sure your code can’t be used.