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Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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I think many of the concerns are valid, but I'm not sure I'd read too much into the name of the absorbing org. Org names at Microsoft end up being misaligned and unintuitive all the time.

While that may be true, I don't think the specific name of the team at Microsoft absorbing GitHub is what's concerning users. I can't think of a team up there that wouldn't be a red flag in this case.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

#22

GitLab is like, really good. No need to put your codebase in the "cloud."

I feel like all new AI tools only integrate with GitHub though, like Claude Code. We're actually thinking of moving from GitLab to GitHub, just for this reason.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

#24

GitLab is like, really good. No need to put your codebase in the "cloud."

GitLab is great - but super fat. The performance will suffer heavily if you don't give it the resources it wants (all RAM you can find, lol).

If you only need Git plus project tracking Gitea is super mature. It runs happily on small VPS.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

#25

> GitHub moving into Core AI team On the one hand, this probably means it gets the funding it needs to keep going strong. On the other hand, I'm worried that this means that GitHub is going to focus exclusively on building AI features while the core product becomes stale/abandoned.

Will it be Bob or Clippy?

$ git commit

The git command has been changed to bob, please type 'bob commit' to commit.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

#26

GitHub will now fall under Microsoft's CoreAI team, which give some indication of GitHub's purpose and direction going forward.

right ... wtf

We could barely convince the reviewers on the last review that using GitHub is okay as long as we take some extra steps, I guess we should prepare to switch to a different platform with the next review.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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I moved to GitLab a year or so ago. It’s been great, I actually prefer GitLab ci

I did as well! No issues any worse than people using habitually using "github" to mean "the remote git repository in the cloud".

I expect this will continue indefinitely until the product becomes little more than an AI training corpus and genericized trademark, similar to how our Xerox machines at work are actually made by Brother, while Xerox the actual brand has faded into obsolescence.

I will note that we don't use many of the CI/CD/issue tracking/wiki/etc. features, though both Github and Gitlab offer them. I'm sure they have their own particular quirks that may be a hassle to migrate between and have people relearn. I prefer to keep those tools separate, allowing the git repository be almost exclusively a git repository and spinning up other tools as needed.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Expect Github to get worse. Much worse.

What more damage can they do besides train AI on all code without consent? Oh wait i guess fisting ads into other peoples code somehow...

They could spam you with low-quality AI (but I repeat myself) PRs. Maybe add some vaguely plausible but utterly incorrect bug reports as well.

Look at the some of the AI slop curl deals with -- https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-s... -- and imagine your issues list filled with that.

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