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  • Windows hate train looks fun, but as someone who works in the industry, most of that code is probably just unit tests and boilerplate stuff.

    Copilot is decent at quickly writing huge amounts of mostly correct, tedious unit test code, depending on your language/framework. And since Microsoft works with languages like C# and .NET for their native apps, and likely backend too, there is quite a bit of verbosity that Copilot can take care of. Also, documentation might count as well.

    No real code is AI-generated. He’s just saying shit like this to keep idiot investors happy.



  • sqibkw@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldHow about Vivaldi Browser?
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    I jumped ship from Firefox to Vivaldi back in 2020 for the same reasons. Not only did Firefox give some huge pay raises to their execs, but they also laid off tons of people at the same time. By tons of people, I mean like 250 all at once, and they only had 750 people working there total in 2020. Huge shame that they’re just pocketing all the money meant for something important, to keep browsers diverse.

    In my experience, Vivaldi has had superior customization and privacy settings, even to those in Firefox and Brave.

    And about the UI code being closed source, from what I can tell, it’s all minified JavaScript. So while they don’t have documented code on GitLab or anything, anyone can still parse through it and run security checks on it if they want. Not perfect, but at least it’s there.