Brian P. Hogan on Engineering

Brian P. Hogan@bphogan

Hi. I know you’re excited about copilot. GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you for copilot after you help train it further. It’s truly disappointing to watch people cheer at having their work and time exploited by a company worth billions.

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Tone: personal, punchy
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