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GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2025
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That's perfect for higher ups. They don't care if what you release has bugs as long as you work on them when they pop up, they consider that part of your job. They want a result quickly and will accept 85% if it moves the needle forward.
These people don't care about technical debt, they don't care about exploits until it happens to them, then it's how bad and how long to fix. No one cares about doxxes anymore, it's just the cost of doing business. Like recalls.
This is perfect for CEOs and billionaires because they don't care how something is done at a 35,000 foot view, they just want it now. AI is a nightmare of exploits that haven't even begun to be discovered yet. Things that will be easily exploitable, especially by other algorithms.
Coders are just as effected by supply and demand, and the demand is for AI products.
Hmm, a lot of my career was done doing embedded programming, where mistakes in production are very costly, and software/hardware has to be released with basically zero bugs, so that may be where the disconnect is. I still think bugs and technical debt are costly elsewhere too if the product is going to have a long lifecycle, but executives are just dumb.
There's been an unbalancing of top down power, especially in venture capital, we will pay for these decisions down the line.