A good conspiracy can be interesting even if it's false, so I don't criticise you for finding it interesting; but I downvoted because I didn't - HN is chock full of "Microsoft bad, Embrace Extend Extinguish" and it's fucking tiresome. I wrote 1700 words on how that comment makes no sense but I'll reduce it:
- Have you ever read a PR and thought "this code is useless" and the result was you deciding that "kLOC is great"? Any way I put those things (Microsoft, kLOC, AI, Github, social cliques,...) together I don't get anything sensible; Microsoft spent 7.5Bn on Github to make kLOC great to help them destroy open source? It's a crackpot word salad, not a reasoned position. At least, if it's a reasoned position they should post the reasoning.
- Github has 200,000,000+ public repositories and makes $1Bn/year revenue. How will putting AI into Github 'finally' destroy open source and why does Microsoft want to screw up a revenue stream roughly the size of Squarespace's, bigger than DigitalOcean's or Netgear's, and getting on for as big as CloudFlare's?
That said, this conspiracy theory does line up with the corporate retraction from open source writ large that's happened over the last few years (i.e. HashiCorp moving to BUSL; Red Hat ending CentOS; VMware pulling back after Broadcom ate them; etc.)
- Have you ever read a PR and thought "this code is useless" and the result was you deciding that "kLOC is great"? Any way I put those things (Microsoft, kLOC, AI, Github, social cliques,...) together I don't get anything sensible; Microsoft spent 7.5Bn on Github to make kLOC great to help them destroy open source? It's a crackpot word salad, not a reasoned position. At least, if it's a reasoned position they should post the reasoning.
- Github has 200,000,000+ public repositories and makes $1Bn/year revenue. How will putting AI into Github 'finally' destroy open source and why does Microsoft want to screw up a revenue stream roughly the size of Squarespace's, bigger than DigitalOcean's or Netgear's, and getting on for as big as CloudFlare's?