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GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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

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This was inevitable and going towards the direction, but it is sad to see this part of CoreAI division. Copilot and other AI initiatives should not be the primary driver of GitHub's vision.

Github may have more value as the largest software training corpus in the world than as a paid VCS, and Microsoft gets to uniquely utilize that as they will have non rate limited internal APIs and/or dumps to train on.

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

#32

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.

I’m pretty sure the fact that it’s the AI team is a pretty big factor. It would at least make sense if it was, for example, the Azure team.

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

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post #9
post #2

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...

I’m envisioning VSCode Vibe Server 2026 edition.

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

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post #33
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

I’m envisioning VSCode Vibe Server 2026 edition.

It's called "CoPilot Agent Mode"

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/copilot-a...

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

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

And, if you don't like something there's a very good chance you could be the change you want to see - they have a pretty welcoming contribution culture. Even if you don't want to change something, being able to read the source for it goes a long way toward aligning your understanding of the behavior, and that's not a diss on their usually pretty good documentation

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

#37

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.

Gitea is neat, and the Actions compatibility is promising. Though I’d suggest a fork, Forgejo: https://forgejo.org/compare-to-gitea/

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

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post #9
post #2

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...

One tried-and-true classic is to delete old stuff, and GitHub has a lot of old stuff... in a couple years someone will calculate an amount they can save.

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

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The CoreAI team is where DevDiv got reorged into earlier this year: https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24342793/microsoft-ai-eng...

DevDiv was arguably the place where GitHub would have ended up had it become integrated earlier, so it makes sense that it would end up there.

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

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post #16

Surprised it took this long. I am working with Github sales team on straightening out our Github organization at my new job and it was weird to get a Zoom meeting invite from a company that has been part of Microsoft for nearly 10 years

Seven years. And that is because they didn’t want to mess with it like all the other acquisitions.
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