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GitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slop (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Someone should come up with a catchy alliterative name for this tactic of incorporating competing ideas in Microsoft product family, augmenting them with their own proprietary crap and pulling the rug after achieving lock-in. Maybe call it AAA for "Adopt, add on, annihilate".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sadly not a new thing for Microsoft. The term exists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

whoosh

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

lol you don't have to be a dick about it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

incorrect

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They call it BOGU

[–] SplashJackson 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Buy One Get...Unicorns?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Bend Over Grease Up.

Classic Micro$quash.