Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub • Hacker News Board

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

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Post by flohofwoe » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 3:37 PM UTC

ethan_smith wrote: post #9

mxstbr wrote: post #6

It's interesting that he signs off with "So long, and thanks for all the fish," which is a quote from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Just before the Vogons demolish Earth to make way for a hyperspace bypass, the dolphins, knowing what’s coming, leave the planet and their farewell message is “So long, and thanks for all the fish.” I wonder what he's implying about GitHub…

The reference likely hints at GitHub's transformation under Microsoft - the dolphins (Thomas and team) foresaw changes coming (AI integration and corporate direction) and are gracefully departing before the "demolition" of what GitHub originally stood for.

I rather think the AI integration was mainly driven by this dude, given his recent dumb AI related tweets before he was stepped down.

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

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Post by ryandv » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 3:37 PM UTC

Good riddance. I'd never even heard of this man until he came out telling developers to "get out of your career" [0] after stealing all their open source code for Copilot. Instant animosity.

GitHub is completely unrecognizable compared to how it was before being gamified and turned into social media.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44808645

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

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Post by shawn-butler » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 3:38 PM UTC

neom wrote: post #19

Am I the only one who find it a bit uncouth/weird to do this last week https://ashtom.github.io/developers-reinvented and peace out this week?

He made his money, he doesn't care who starves now

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

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Post by addandsubtract » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 3:38 PM UTC

threetonesun wrote: post #13

arp242 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I wonder what he's implying about GitHub Nothing. It's just a common(-ish) reference/joke.

Yes. I've also used this when leaving a job, albeit with a slight modification since the job did not provide fish. I suppose you could read it with the subtext that the dolphins are saying "see ya suckers" but I think it's more appropriate to read it as the dolphins actually saying "thank you" even though things didn't entirely work out.

"Thanks for all the phish."

    scp emails.db tom@dohmke.dev:/home/.

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

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Post by flohofwoe » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 3:39 PM UTC

neom wrote: post #19

Am I the only one who find it a bit uncouth/weird to do this last week https://ashtom.github.io/developers-reinvented and peace out this week?

I bet this was the reason why he suddenly "resigned".

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

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Post by __jonas » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 3:40 PM UTC

> GitHub and its leadership team will continue its mission as part of Microsoft’s CoreAI organization

So the whole of GitHub is now seen primarily as an AI platform?

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

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Post by rethab » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 3:42 PM UTC

what's his next thing, is that known?

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

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Post by bgwalter » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 3:43 PM UTC

mxstbr wrote: post #6

It's interesting that he signs off with "So long, and thanks for all the fish," which is a quote from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Just before the Vogons demolish Earth to make way for a hyperspace bypass, the dolphins, knowing what’s coming, leave the planet and their farewell message is “So long, and thanks for all the fish.” I wonder what he's implying about GitHub…

He is probably just trying to sound cool after years of being an "AI" apparatchik. GitHub stole our code under the pretense of "democratizing" software development (while people in poor countries cannot afford the plagiarism machine).

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

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Post by fkyoureadthedoc » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 3:43 PM UTC

ryandv wrote: post #22

Good riddance. I'd never even heard of this man until he came out telling developers to "get out of your career" [0] after stealing all their open source code for Copilot. Instant animosity. GitHub is completely unrecognizable compared to how it was before being gamified and turned into social media. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44808645

> gamified and turned into social media.

What makes you think this? I use it for work and it's never been better in terms of features, and is just as reliable as usual.

I honestly have no idea what you're talking about with gamification and social media. The only gamification I can think of is the commit graph which has been a thing for at least a decade.

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 3:45 PM UTC

arp242 wrote: post #8

mxstbr wrote: post #6

It's interesting that he signs off with "So long, and thanks for all the fish," which is a quote from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Just before the Vogons demolish Earth to make way for a hyperspace bypass, the dolphins, knowing what’s coming, leave the planet and their farewell message is “So long, and thanks for all the fish.” I wonder what he's implying about GitHub…

> I wonder what he's implying about GitHub Nothing. It's just a common(-ish) reference/joke.

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