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Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

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Post by brailsafe »

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

Your link references a Business Insider editorial—possibly written by ai—that intentionally misquotes him.

The title of that article is "GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out."

and in that article, the quote is:

> "Either you have to embrace the Al, or you get out of your career," Dohmke wrote, citing one of the developers who GitHub interviewed.

but the text in the blog post that BI cited was:

> The developers who found success with AI tools have a strong underlying motivation to prepare for what they anticipate will be an overhaul of their profession. To that end, they relentlessly experiment with various AI tools, even when the tools aren’t consistently helpful. “Either you have to embrace the Al, or you get out of your career” one developer said.

Which honestly seems like poor phrasing on the supposed developer's part, but it wasn't the CEO saying it. Entropy all the way down.

Edit: Nevermind, apparently he did say that in various social media posts. It seems like an intentionally outrageous move that's been pretty typical of CEOs lately, but he did say it. Incidentally, I'm happy I'm so out of touch with other social media that I didn't know lol

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

#66

Post by mixdup »

__jonas wrote: post #26

> 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?

Everything at Microsoft is seen primarily as an AI platform, but especially developer focused stuff is all AI. They've rolled up all the Azure stuff on our account team to be represented by our "Cloud and AI" specialist, even though we aren't using AI in any of our PaaS/IaaS Azure usage

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

#67

Post by Sateeshm »

brailsafe wrote: post #61
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

Your link references a Business Insider editorial—possibly written by ai—that intentionally misquotes him. The title of that article is "GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out." and in that article, the quote is: > "Either you have to embrace the Al, or you get out of your career," Dohmke wrote, citing one of the developers who GitHub interviewed. but the text in the blog post that BI…

He did use it as the opening line in his tweet, making it look like a statement he was making. No quotation marks around it or anything.

https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6660a5bfdcf6c5fbf039f446/...

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

#68

Post by Sateeshm »

mixdup wrote: post #66
__jonas wrote: post #26

> 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?

Everything at Microsoft is seen primarily as an AI platform, but especially developer focused stuff is all AI. They've rolled up all the Azure stuff on our account team to be represented by our "Cloud and AI" specialist, even though we aren't using AI in any of our PaaS/IaaS Azure usage

Microsoft is one of big ones to tank big if AI boom fizzles out.

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

#69

Post by imglorp »

nottorp wrote: post #11
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… Don't forget to carry a towel at all times, of course!

Or don't listen to Vogon poetry.
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