alt Hacker NewsEveryone suggesting that they simply charge users for commits to drive off AI-heavy users forgets that Github is owned by Microsoft, who has a big incentive to keep having developers use AI.
I suspect that Microsoft would even prefer to have Github operate at a loss, if that loss were because all its users were using their models and paying for OpenAI subscriptions to generate the code.
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RunSet • today at 10:07 PM
Microsoft has a financial incentive to push LLMs and also an existential reason since LLM-generated code is incompatible with the GPL.
skeeter2020 • today at 9:46 PM
operating at a loss and non-operational because of outages are very different. If they can't maintain service levels nobody - AI super user or quant, old-fashioned human - will be happy.
fastball • today at 9:47 PM
What Microsoft models?
> I suspect that Microsoft would even prefer to have Github operate at a loss,
I assumed it does, do you know that it doesn't?