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Mitchell on what he'd do if he was in charge of GitHub:

https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2036866220449030168



I was expecting something more pragmatic than 'lean into AI even harder' to be honest.

GitHub needs to slow down with the AI shit and spend manpower fixing what's broken. Actions is a complete fucking disaster.

Also I have no idea what Pierre is but their website is horrible.


The big idea is all agentic interactions should critically rely on GitHub APIs. Code review should be agentic but the labs should be building that into GH (not bolted in through GHA like today, real first class platform primitives). GH should absolutely launch an agent chat primitive, agent mailboxes are obviously good. Etc. GH should be a platform and not an agent itself.

Why do I want that running on somebody else's computer? It's bad enough that most developers already rely on Anthropic or OpenAI. What value does a remote working repo add?


This sounds like massive centralization on GitHub and super ugly product coupling, instead of rolling open standards. I'm now glad Mitchell doesn't run GitHub.

> Copilot revenue goes to 0 if GitHub burns to the ground.

That's not remotely true. I doubt most Copilot Business/Enterprise subscribers care about GitHub at all.


no it's not.


put something out there wade. whats your preference?


Why?


yt neuter has this and much more: https://github.com/mchangrh/yt-neuter


unfortunately no, they're real people with a severe case of ai psychosis


all this moral posturing from the big labs is tiring. just put the tokens in the bag


you are the problem. this "article" is ai slop.


they should've released the spotify dump anonymously


Isn't Anna's Archive already run anonymously? So they sort of did...


That would lose the PR advantage.


depends on how tasteful it is


threw some heatmaps together of post volume and average score by day and time (15min intervals)

story volume (all time): https://ibb.co/pBTTRznP

average score (all time): https://ibb.co/KcvVjx8p

story volume (since 2020): https://ibb.co/cKC5d7Pp

average score (since 2020): https://ibb.co/WpN20kfh


added median too.

median score (all time): https://ibb.co/gZV5QVMG

median score (since 2020): https://ibb.co/Gfv8T7k8


This is fascinating, I love this! What do you create these heat maps with? Did you use the BigQuery data or download from the site?


thanks! i downloaded them and used python to make these


So cool! Would it be impossible fro me to use them on the Archive stats page (https://hackerbook.dosaygo.com/?view=archive) ? If you're okay with that any links/credit line details?

Totally cool if not, just super interesting!


yes, please, that'd be cool! you can link my site grimridge.net if you'd like. here are the numbers so you can plot graphs that fit the site's style:

mean (all time): https://katb.in/yutupojerux

mean (since 2020): https://katb.in/omoyibisava

median (all time): https://katb.in/kilopofivet

median (since 2020): https://katb.in/ukefetuyuhi



just saw this, thanks!


Ok i will put them in the next update! Thank you


can confirm, i'm usually very generous with upvotes on sundays at noon


this is not what enshittification means.


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