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1. Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 01:05:25 JST Baldur Bjarnason

   “Microsoft Is Spying on Users of Its AI Tools - Schneier on Security”

   This is an inevitability with all cloud services, and with code copilots much of the industry’s coding activity that used to be private is now in the cloud and fully analysable by Microsoft. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/02/microsoft-is-spying-on-users-of-its-ai-tools.html

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 01:06:14 JST Aral Balkan

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     @baldur Unfuckingbelievable. I mean what the fuck? When has *writing* code ever been the bottleneck in software development?

   • Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 01:06:15 JST Baldur Bjarnason

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     Here’s a nice related fact from a Microsoft investor conference last year. It’s almost certainly higher now.

     “And 40% of the code they're checking in is now AI-generated and unmodified“

     https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/events/FY-2023/Morgan-Stanley-TMT-Conference#:~:text=and%2040%25%20of%20the%20code%20they're%20checking%20in%20is%20now%20ai%2Dgenerated%20and%20unmodified

     Think about how much of your average dev process they much own now to be able to know this and say it with confidence.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 05:46:51 JST Aral Balkan

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     • FoolishOwl

     @foolishowl @baldur Yep.

   • FoolishOwl (foolishowl@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 05:46:53 JST FoolishOwl

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral @baldur In my limited experience of each, writing code feels astonishingly like writing text. And I've been told the most important part of creative writing is the process of revision. You revise and revise and revise. That's where you spend most of your time.