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Stop using gitlab.com for projects - Credit card info required for new registrations (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by vivi@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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If your IP (and possible your browser) looks "suspicious" or has been used by other users before, you need to add additional information for registration on gitlab.com, which includes your mobile phone number and possibly credit card information. Since it is not possible to contribute or even report issues on open source projects without doing so, I do not think any open source project should use this service until they change that.

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[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 68 points 9 months ago (5 children)

On a tangent, why are all of these companies pushing AI programming? This shit isn't nearly as functional as they make it seem and all the beginners who try it are constantly asking questions about why their generated code doesn't work

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 64 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We are in the hype cycle so everyone is going bananas and there's money to be made prior to the trough of disillusionment.

[–] youngGoku@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Haha so true.

I tried to use chatgpt to convert a monstrosity of a SQL query to a sqlalchemy query and it failed horribly.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 42 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's their wet dream. Making software without programmers.

Execs have never cared about the technology or the engineering side of it. If you could make software by banging on a pot while dancing naked around the fire, they'd have been ok with that.

And now that AI has come along that's basically what it looks like to them.

[–] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube 27 points 9 months ago

VC's and companies like OpenAI have done a really good job of propagandizing AI (LLMs). People think it's magical and the future, so there's money in saying you have it.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 25 points 9 months ago

Because it brings in mad VC funding

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

I'm hyped about AI assisted programming and even agent driven projects (writing their own code, submitting pull requests etc) but I also agree that it seems just too early to actually put money behind it.

Its just so marginal so far, the UI/HMI has too much friction still and the output without skilled programming assistance is too limited.