• superkret
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    10 hours ago

    No, this is definitely big corporations. It has Microsoft written all over it.
    Microsoft has now gone “all in on Open Source” (except for their own code, of course).
    They rely on OSS for most of their revenue (Azure). And they force their employees to use Copilot for everything.
    It would only make sense for them to flood the devs of OSS they use with Copilot-generated bug reports and feature requests.

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        9 hours ago

        To avoid company-internal pressure.
        Microsoft is pretty cult-like nowadays. Employees need to write weekly self-assessments using Copilot, which are used to judge their “growth mindset” and decide if they get a raise, or fired.

        https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-cult-of-microsoft/

        Demonstrating your “commitment to advancing open source”, while using Copilot, benefits employees internally.

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          9 hours ago

          Not saying it can’t be, but I’ll be more convinced by an article that is a bit less emotionally loaded. It’s clear that the author has a bone to pick with Microsoft, and it reads as it’s written by a high schooler who wants to LARP as a journalist.

          Just to be clear I have been in big tech corpos with cult-ish undertones and I have also seen the mindset poppycock shoved to my face multiple times, it’s not that I find their contents hard to believe. I just find that article hard to trust.