i think the thing that sucks the most about the openai fallout over the weekend is that microsoft has doubled, maybe tripled or quadrupled down on AI in their products, well before the tech has been proven to be useful to customers or not. it feels less like it matters whether AI is useful to customers and more like a boondoggle that "had better work" no matter the cost.
AI-enabled features have been part of a larger set of changes that has made windows totally unusable for me, almost to the point of making it unusable for single tasks. but probably worse for me in particular, github has fully publicly pivoted to being a platform for AI — and i get the feeling that what used to be the core product, git hosting and project management features, is going to suffer even more than it has in past years. it's already a site that has gone from being my best choice for new projects to being on my "avoid, if at all possible" list in a year just from how hard they're pushing copilot (and how much worse the rest of the site is getting as a result).
