Meanwhile, several companies are no longer offering bounties. It's becoming tedious to sift through all the AI-generated submissions, many of which are false positives.
I got the same email regarding my hobby website "The Wheel of Lunch" (https://wheelof.com/lunch). The site makes no money and sends traffic to Yelp. The cheapest plan offered was $230 a month! I can't afford that.
I have stopped calling the Yelp API for local listings and put up a notice on the site. It was fun while it lasted!
I agree with you. I love using copilot (and similar tools) and I’ve found it is exceedingly good at predicting patterns in my own coding. It has saved me a lot of time, and I would hate for it to go away or be crippled because of lawsuits like this. I could care less if my own code is used for training. My code isn’t precious, it’s what I do with it that is important.
Gonna mention Quiver (The Programmer's Notebook) as it hasn't been mentioned yet. I've been on Evernote for about 10 years and have a few thousand notes in it. This news is discomfiting and I look forward to checking out some of the contemporary alternatives. Lately, I've been putting more technical/nerdy stuff into Quiver, which understands code and does syntax highlighting and all that good stuff. I don't like it as much for the free-form stuff I do in Evernote, but for code snippets it's great.
Seeing a lot of posts of the "Observable vs Jupyter" variety. I really don't think this has to be a this versus that kind of discussion. There is plenty of room for both.
> "Imagine what your perfect source would tweet, or what you yourself would tweet in that situation, and search for the words that would probably be in it."
This is a technique I used to use a lot more in the days before Google became the dominant search engine, when I was using Lycos, Alta Vista and Yahoo. In those more primitive search engines that were doing something closer to a full-text search, it was important to use the words and verb tenses that were likely to appear in the answer (or target page/tweet), not in the question.
So for example, instead of querying "Which museum is the Mona Lisa in?" it was best to query "collection includes the mona lisa" and similar phrases.
Needless to say, third generation search engines like Google made this all unnecessary, and hopefully, Twitter will get there too, eventually.
As someone who is currently job hunting, and freshly familiar with excessively long & arbitrary "requrements" sections and tedious application forms, THANK YOU.
