Got logged out of github for some reason, and the entire top bar turns into some lunatic marketing nightmare from a parallel universe. This is easily the sanest submenu.
the “Why, github?” made me lol, thank you.
That menu is kind of insane though, especially how the useful stuff was clearly moved so you would click on the new stuff by accident.
I love Github Copilot. It fixes all of my spell errors in comments. Totally worth billions of dollars
I mostly agree. But would be more nuanced regarding Github Advanced Security.
Most features grouped under “Advanced Security” looks quite useful https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/learning-about-github/about-github-advanced-security Sadly Microsoft has to sneak copilot in there, but the rest of it looks good.
It’s probably possible to get most of these features while avoiding copilot by staying away from Github. There are other code hosting platforms, and most support CI pipelines. Scans can be added to pipelines even if those platforms don’t support scans out of the box.
GitHub Advanced Security seems useful. AI has successfully found security vulnerabilities that would’ve otherwise gone undetected, and as a rule of thumb all security vulnerabilities need to be found and patched.
“AI” has also successfully found security vulnerabilities that don’t exist.
Better a false positive than false negative, as long as people aren’t submitting AI generated bug bounty reports to projects and hiding the fact they’re AI.
I take it you’re not the one triaging the subsequent slop. I am.
