How can GitHub determine whether a submission is from a bot or a human?

Money. Money gates everywhere.

We already have agentic payment workflows, this won’t stop it either as people are already willing (and able) to give their agent AIs a small budget to work with.

No one is putting 5$ to open a PR. Pau gates stopped trolls and itll stop this type of botting/troll.

Same with github accounts, etc. The age of free accounts is quickly going out.

Disagree. I have seen people pay more for less. Especially in the case of something like a PR where their job performance could be tied to the result.

Post Citizens United, that’s going to require a Constitutional amendment.

And the corrupt, bought politicians are the ones who would need to ratify it.

Let's not act like they weren't corrupt and bought before Citizens United

This is unhelpful fatalism and actively dissuades reform. Not all politicians are "corrupt and bought". And further, there is an enormous difference before and after this Supreme Court decision.

It costs money to run for office. Before Citizens United, it was hard, limited, traceable donations, from individuals. No corporations, no soft money, no legal dark money. Now money has flooded in, with far less accountability.

1. Do you have insider knowledge of the Reddit code base and the Moltbook code base and how much it reproduced?

2. Copying an existing product should take a minuscule fraction of the time it took to evolve the original.

3. I glanced at some of the Moltbook comments which were meaningless slop, very few having any replies.

This could be similar to defaulting to a monolith service, and breaking it into micro services only when experience demands it.

Start with Postgres for everything, then use custom solutions where you are running into the limitations of Postgres.

I mean yeah what did you think politics meant?

Reed Richards is Useless

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ReedRichardsIsUs...

I think about this more and more when I see people online about their "agents managing agents" producing...something...24/7/365.

Very rarely is there anything about WHAT these agents are producing and why it's important and valuable.

Indeed - there is a lot of fake "productivity" going on with these swarms of agents

But the contexts are closely related.

Large scale technology projects that people are suspicious and anxious about. There are a lot of people anxious that AI will be used for mass surveillance by governments. So you pick a name of another project that was used for mass surveillance by government.

It's really hard to maintain a product team where the mandate is just "don't break anything and keep the quality high". Especially something with as big of an installed base as Windows.

The team will look for excuses to build new and exciting stuff and new opportunities to increase revenue. Even if the product is pretty much "done".

I disagree, I think companies mostly just don't want to spend development money on existing "finished" products. That's the smell I'm getting from microsoft.

There are plenty of easily identifiable issues with performance in windows 11. There should be people in the windows team dedicated to eliminating "jank". MS product owners, on the other hand, are much more interested in getting copilot integrations into every menu. That's an "easy" task which looks good on a scorecard when you complete it.

No, it really shouldn't be... You can reduce headcount a lot, which they did, and concentrate on bugs (including security reports), while working with hardware vendors for if/when new features need to be integrated for better usability.

If/when you decide to do a redesign, it should be limited to a specific area, or done in such a way that all functionality gets moved to its' new UI/UX in a specified timeframe and released when done. Not, oh, here's a new right click menu that you now have an extra click 1/3 of the time for the old menu that has what you are actually looking for because the old extension interface was broken.

Want a real exercise in fun ... just for fun, because I know it's not as useful on a laptop, but was fun on desktops... get a screensaver working in windows that runs for an hour or so before going to sleep... just try it... that's a fun exercise in frustration... oh, it's still in there, but every third update will disable it all again. I get it... but you know what, I want my matrix screensaver to run when I'm only away for a few minutes or over lunch.

The mandate seams to be "squeeze everything for a subscription fee and keep the quality... actually just the first thing".

> Meanwhile, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote a blog post asking people to stop calling AI-generated content "slop" and to think of AI as "bicycles for the mind."

I can't believe Nadella stole Jobs "bicycles for the mind" metaphor without attribution.