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by vishnugupta 96 days ago
Out of curiosity I checked out the author’s resume and this is their current position. Oh the irony!!

I built significant pieces of the Copilot onboarding, purchasing, billing and settings flow. For eight months I headed up the Copilot anti-abuse effort. I then led the launch of GitHub Models, and am now working on other Copilot projects.
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rvz 96 days ago
No wonder GitHub is always collapsing every week.

Tay.ai, Zoe and Copilot bots being deployed wrecking the platform being unable to fix infrastructure issues whilst the humans are just tweaking all the tiniest issues.

They should instead focus on GitHub actions and improving the uptime of the whole platform first before doing anything AI.

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shermantanktop 96 days ago
Wherever you work, are there embarrassing experiences that your organization ships?

If so, why didn’t you personally fix them so that nobody could associate you as an individual with a broken CX?

If not, please let me know where to apply, because that sounds like a unicorn organization.

Humans in large groups do amazing and crappy things at the same time. Playing gotcha with someone’s resume is a shitty thing to do.

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collingreen 95 days ago
On the other hand the place I work isn't owned by a company with many many billions to throw around, including many billions paid for the platform in question. I agree attacking someone's resume is lame but attacking big corporate prioritization feels valid here to me.
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shermantanktop 95 days ago
Totally. None of us is as stupid as all of us.

But working in a well-funded company doesn’t make this problem go away. It makes it worse in a lot of ways.

For my org, I’ll be happy to be first in line to criticize some of the notably wrongheaded prioritization decisions.

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MRonErlang 94 days ago
Maybe they hope Copilot will write a better Actions for them
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born2web 95 days ago
Irony indeed! After years of seeing no value, i finally cancelled my github copilot subscription. Poor quality product to say the least.
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6510 96 days ago
must be painful, Copilot gives me serious "I cant do that Dave" vibes. But I can walk you though how to add events to your outlook calendar manually one by one.
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