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Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

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Post by brailsafe »

Sateeshm wrote: post #67
brailsafe wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/...

Ya fair enough, LinkedIn too. I'm happy that I don't check any of those platforms enough to have even considered checking, but he did say it apparently.

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

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Post by CraigRood »

Catbert59 wrote: post #46
sylens wrote: post #34

For the people who are leaving GitHub due to concerns over Copilot stealing their code, where are you going? GitLab? Self hosting your own?

I always have a private Gitea instance running for my private projects. VPS are cheap in 2025 and it doesn't eat much resources.

I run Gitea too - Seeing what is happening over at GitHub solidifies my decision.

Not too concerned over my public facing repos, Amazon and OpenAI seem to love 'em! I have the ultimate control over my private repos (nothing juicy). I can't say I trust Microsoft not to do something I don't like at any point in the future.

Edit: I should say I wish phabricator got more love, that was a great tool!

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

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Post by jeremymcanally »

jonas21 wrote: post #52
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

> GitHub is completely unrecognizable compared to how it was before being gamified and turned into social media. Huh? The whole premise on which Github was founded was that it was "social coding". The phrase was even in the logo in the early days [0]. Social features like stars, following, and the activity feed have been there from very early on. If anything, I feel like Github has become a lot more corporate and ent…

GitHub was founded to make managing permissions and sharing a git repo easier. It was a nightmare when git was first starting to get traction. Their original tagline was “git repo hosting - no longer a pain in the ass.”

The social stuff came later as they realized that a big part of the friction in software development (and the actual business opportunity) was the actual working together part. They really innovated here and created a culture of workflows that has permeated the way most of us work.

But then there were a few years where they really didn’t seem to do anything of note (I remember there was a five month stretch where they didn’t post a single product update). And then they got bought. After that I don’t really know what their intention has been, but I guess this change brings it more into focus.

The product works fine for our use cases (and the fact everyone has a GitHub account makes the management piece super easy even with wacky enterprise requirements), but I hope they don’t start jacking up prices to pay for AI that I really really don’t want.

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

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Post by Catbert59 »

CraigRood wrote: post #73
Catbert59 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always have a private Gitea instance running for my private projects. VPS are cheap in 2025 and it doesn't eat much resources.

I run Gitea too - Seeing what is happening over at GitHub solidifies my decision. Not too concerned over my public facing repos, Amazon and OpenAI seem to love 'em! I have the ultimate control over my private repos (nothing juicy). I can't say I trust Microsoft not to do something I don't like at any point in the future. Edit: I should say I wish phabricator got more love, that was a great tool!

My private repos would contaminate the Copilot LLM for life. Haha.

Have fun Microsoft getting that foul apple out of your system again.

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

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Post by cholantesh »

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…

This is just laundering editorial through some anonymous phantom; if he didn't offer any qualification or pushback, he's effectively endorsing the opinions being expressed. At the end of the article he also talks about devs being mere humans being reluctant to change and how "that's okay". This is very typical C-suite therapy speak. There's no need to unpack _why_ the skepticism exists, it just needs to be worked around until the inevitable truth™ is accepted.

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

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Post by herbst »

fkyoureadthedoc wrote: post #29
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.

> just as reliable as usual

The widespread downtime issues the last years aren't what I call usual

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

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Post by yubblegum »

"Managing agents to achieve outcomes may sound unfulfilling to many, although we argue that’s what developers have been doing on a lower level of abstraction, managing their computers via programming languages to achieve outcomes." [From another one of his blogs]

That actually pissed me off. Here I thought I was creative work all these years and here comes this corporate drone telling us we were "managing outcomes".

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

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Post by msgodel »

o_m wrote: post #41
threetonesun wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I had a coworker say this when quitting. Most people that knew the reference interpreted it in a negative way. I would not recommend using it because of how ambiguous it is

tbh I had never thought carefully about it until now. I always got excited hearing it from other people thinking "Oh another person who likes Douglas Adam's book!"

I'm kind of glad I read this thread though, I can see why it could stress people out.

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