Comment by mister_mort
18 hours ago
This is pumping someone's metrics up inside of Microsoft, somewhere.
The question is - will their boss revert it or encourage it when they discover the source of the stats being juiced?
18 hours ago
This is pumping someone's metrics up inside of Microsoft, somewhere.
The question is - will their boss revert it or encourage it when they discover the source of the stats being juiced?
A Principal Software Engineer at Microslop merged this - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitriy-vasyura-9191611/
This is the author of the MR - https://github.com/cwebster-99 - A Product Manager at Microslop
I've routinely spoken on the uselessness, and oftentimes detriment of product managers in tech.
The dearth of leadership driving for vanity metrics like PMs writing code doesn't help either.
I can’t access that LinkedIn link without going through their Persona ID process, which requires all kinds of PII.
> LinkedIn users attempting identity verification may be unknowingly handing sensitive personal data to Persona Identities Inc., a company that distributes information to government agencies, credit bureaus, utilities, and mobile providers.
^ Link from a LinkedIn page I found on a Kagi search.
I can view some LinkedIn pages but not others without logging in.
Even though I’ve never posted to LinkedIn it only use it as a public résumé, my account was flagged as needing identity verification. I’m pretty sure this happened a year or two ago when I changed my email address from one domain I owned to another domain I owned.
I’ve never been able to log in since then, and there is no support path. The only available way past it is to simply submit all the info to Persona.
I'm here, what would you like to know?
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I'm here in case you have something to say to me directly.
What was the reasoning for this change?
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Jerk move
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The role feels like it’s borne out of a desire to see employees as fungible.
Isn't that someone the person who created the PR? "Product Manager at @microsoft working on VS Code and GitHub Copilot!" it says on her profile
Isn't it also cause they want to tag those commit so that they don't feed it into copilot training?
My first thought when I read this was that it was accidental. But the title of the PR looks like that they aren't even trying to hide it
Never attribute malice as mistakes when it comes to Microsoft.
That someone saw Google's claim that 75% of their code is written with AI and said "hold my beer".
Juiced stats? No such thing, at least as long as stock number go up.
>No such thing, at least as long as stock number go up.
You want your 401k to go up, don't you? /s