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jezzamon | 11 days ago

"continvoucly morged" is such a perfect phrase to describe what happened, it's poetic

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alex_suzuki|11 days ago

It's the sound of speaking when someone is stuffing AI down your throat.

arduanika|11 days ago

Decades upon decades of hard work by public contributors -- open source code, careful tech blogging, painstaking diagrams -- all of it will be assimilated without credit or accuracy into the morg.

Resistance is futile.

jimmaswell|11 days ago

Good - we've been building the seed corpus for AI the past 50 years, and all this manual work now becomes exponentially more useful to others who get to build amazing things without all the tedium. I'm personally thrilled if my code made it in to the machine to help others. We laid train tracks by hand so that they could invent a machine to do it and we can focus on the destination.

I've been coding for over a decade, and I've built some great things, but the slow, careful, painstaking drudge-work parts were always the biggest motivation-killers. AI is worth it at any cost for removing the friction from these parts the way it has for me. Days of work are compressed into 20 minutes sometimes (e.g. convert a huge file of Mercurial hooks into Git hooks, knowing only a little about Mercurial hooks and none about Git hooks re: technical implementation). Donkey-work that would serve no value wasting my human time and energy on when a machine can do it, because it learned from decades of examples from the before-times when people did this by hand. If some people abuse the tools to make a morg here and there, so be it; it's infinitely worth the tradeoff.

ChrisArchitect|11 days ago

Was reading the word morged thinking it was some new slang I hadn't heard of. Incredible.

nvader|11 days ago

If it wasn't before, it will be now.

thebruce87m|11 days ago

I propose:

Morge: when an AI agent is attempting to merge slop into your repo.

adityaathalye|11 days ago

Same! I was about to go duck-searching for meaning, but thanks to jezzamon for pointing it out.

brb, printing a t-shirt that says "continvoucly morged"

jacquesm|11 days ago

Missed opportunity: 'morgued'.

bw86|11 days ago

I am waiting for Raymond Chen to post a "Microspeak: Morged" blog post.

ares623|11 days ago

"Babe, wake up. New verb for slop just dropped."

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

arduanika|11 days ago

Quiet! MSFT's damage control team does not want us to embiggen the incident.

zephen|11 days ago

I can't believe all the mockery here.

The AI thinks it "convincingly morphed" the original, and instead of coaching it to do better next time, all you people are merciless.

AIs have feelings too, you know!

I, for one, welcome our new overlords, and I would never, ever, ever say or do anything to intimate that they are less than perfect, or that they are not getting even better every day.