He can't even invert a binary tree on a whiteboard.

Feels like this is just one of many pets.com moments to come

Getting rid of nonsense descriptions is very sensible. Trying to set some kind of policy to prevent that is also sensible.

Banning developers from internally using Copilot, a personal tool that is essentially a glorified autocomplete so you don't have to type as much, all because of "copyright infringement," "ethics" and "energy waste" concerns, is dumb. It is unrelated to the problem at hand, unenforceable, bizarrely overreaching, unnecessarily divisive and also dumb and I hate it.

I just can't stop giggling at the fact that the first response was a wordy, yet completely useless, answer from a magic robot.

AllTrails does this too, to an extend. When you create a route it asks for a couple of questions (think checkboxes). But it then writes it out as human written text as a way to make you believe someone has actually curated a piece of text describing this hike, which actually ends up being an overgrown trail on someone's private property.

What's worse is that they have the condensed information and decide to make it harder to consume.

Wait … that’s a real bot? Like not a joke bot that shows up in AI related conversations? Holy moley.

It's also inherited the internet's passive aggressiveness. Check out this line:

> Haha, I'm glad you're finding this interaction amusing!

> If they see us using AI for icons, why would they not assume the rest of the content is AI generated too?

This was raised in that linked thread and is a completely valid concern. Who could look at that package manager and feel confident about its other design decisions even if it wasn't largely AI generated itself?

> It doesn't matter whether the general public are right or wrong. I think what we're hearing in this thread is mostly a developer viewpoint. Try to see it like the customers see it.

As an open source developer, I have complex feelings about users who act like they're "customers," entitled to make demands of me. (Unless they are, in fact, paying customers. Paying customers are great, but they're often not the goal of most of my projects.)

The stuff I write on my own time, I write first and foremost for myself. I'm happy to share it with other people, but that's a gift. Sometimes sharing will get a little scene going, and we can all have fun together. But I certainly don't spend $400+/year to "code sign" my binaries for MacOS and Windows. 90% of time, if I hear from a Windows user, it's because they're upset with me and they want something. And I will often deliberately avoid advertising certain tools, because I have zero desire to spend my life providing free tech support.

I'd rather have 100 users who were into what I was trying to do, than 10,000 unpaying "customers" where I had to worry about things like "It doesn't matter whether the general public are right or wrong." I do that at work, not for free on the weekend.

So if I want to enable CoPilot's auto-complete when designing a new file format, then eh, I really don't care if this makes some user suddenly upset and unwilling to use my project. I'm happy to label things clearly so that they know what they're getting and they can make an informed decision. But they're not my customers unless they paid me money.