Sometimes it can have hilarious outcomes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31627061
The concern that Microsoft might slurp up all code you thought you owned was dismissed as ridiculous fear-mongering. We didn't know about LLMs then, but hoo boy were we exactly right to be afraid of the GitHub deal.
b112•8mo ago
Allowing devs to block copilot could "become a PR nightmare!", for someone may release a stat "80% of repos do this'.
Well, how would that look for adoption numbers!