• superkret@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    To avoid company-internal pressure.
    Microsoft is pretty cult-like nowadays. Employees need to write weekly self-assessments using Copilot, which are used to judge their “growth mindset” and decide if they get a raise, or fired.

    https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-cult-of-microsoft/

    Demonstrating your “commitment to advancing open source”, while using Copilot, benefits employees internally.

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      Not saying it can’t be, but I’ll be more convinced by an article that is a bit less emotionally loaded. It’s clear that the author has a bone to pick with Microsoft, and it reads as it’s written by a high schooler who wants to LARP as a journalist.

      Just to be clear I have been in big tech corpos with cult-ish undertones and I have also seen the mindset poppycock shoved to my face multiple times, it’s not that I find their contents hard to believe. I just find that article hard to trust.

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        14 hours ago

        that’s just how Ed Zitron always writes. he makes some good points usually despite that, i wouldn’t dismiss him just because of it.

        his blog is widely known and read among tech workers. i saw another one of his articles posted on hacker news just this morning.