Just saw this post about a password manager accepting LLM-generated code: blobfox.coffee/@Ember/11550861

What I don't understand is: Why is Github Copilot making a pull request to their repository in the first place? Is it something the maintainers of the repository enabled themselves, or is it enabled by GitHub without asking anyone? :psyduck:

@aescling OK, so this is just the maintainers of this particular software being terrible, not GitHub pushing this onto everyone

Otherwise I'd be a lot more worried, since an unfortunately large number of free software projects are still on GitHub...

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@vaporeon_ i still hate that it’s a feature at all though, purrsonally

@aescling Definitely, and I think free software projects should move off GitHub (It's controlled by the enemy (Microsoft)! It promotes "AI" trash! Why are you still on there?!) and onto some free software solution if at all possible

Just, disappointingly few of them have done that :(

@aescling I do admit that I have a GitHub account under my deadname, I think I created it before they got bought by Microsoft, and I kept it around because I needed it for my thesis (which involved extending an existing program whose source code is on GitHub)... I suppose I could delete it now, but I do worry that such a situation will come up again, and I'm not sure whether I have the energy to fight such a requirement (especially since surely there was no malicious intent, it was just the easiest way for them to get a shared Git repository most likely)

But whenever I finish any of my current projects, I promise that the source code will be on my personal website and not on GitHub

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