> 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?
Don’t tell me you’re surprised.
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#92For the people who are leaving GitHub due to concerns over Copilot stealing their code, where are you going? GitLab? Self hosting your own?
Sourcehut is great. Way better DX and performance.
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#93According to Axios, the GitHub CEO position will not be filled. > GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced Monday that he plans to step down, with Microsoft opting not to directly replace the position, according to memos shared first with Axios. https://www.axios.com/2025/08/11/github-ceo-dohmke-step-down
AI is so powerful nowadays that they figured they could replace the CEO position with AI.
In this case, I even suspect it’s possible.
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#94It's common, but I always find it weird when the manager of a division of a company is called the "CEO". Satya Nadella is the CEO of Github because Github is part of Microsoft.
Major subsidiaries within a large company can and do have separate CEOs. For example, YouTube also has a separate CEO (previously Susan Wojcicki, and now Neal Mohan) under Sundar Pichai.
It’s also common within Microsoft. I can’t speak to when/why they decide to do it, but the leads for the Microsoft Gaming (Phill Spencer) and LinkedIn [acquired 2016] (Ryan Roslansky) are both CEOs in the org chart at Microsoft.
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#95Did he resign because he wants to do something different, and Microsoft decided not to replace him and bring GitHub deeper into Microsoft? Or did Microsoft decide to bring it deeper into the company, removing his position in the process? Maybe a bit of the former, but definitely mostly the latter.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's how The Verge is reporting it: # GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation ## GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned, and now GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s AI engineering team. https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas...
Infernally known as the "move fast break things" org
I always knew Vista was a window into hell
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#98It'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…
Vogsphere is the home planet of the Vogons, and features an especially fascinating type of flora that can read one’s thoughts, and anytime it detects an original thought, it jumps out of the ground and swiftly smacks said thinker square in the face. It’s a world that punishes novelty and intelligence.
My home wifi network has been named Vogsphere for some time now…
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#99It'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…
Vogsphere is the home planet of the Vogons, and features an especially fascinating type of flora that can read one’s thoughts, and anytime it detects an original thought, it jumps out of the ground and swiftly smacks said thinker square in the face. It’s a world that punishes novelty and intelligence. My home wifi network has been named Vogsphere for some time now…
It would make a great name for an AI startup.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Microsoft is one of big ones to tank big if AI boom fizzles out.
Eh, I don't think so. They've realigned basically everything to have some kind of AI component, or the dev story to be AI heavy but if AI evaporates tomorrow Azure is still there, Microsoft 365 is still there. It would be a hit to their growth story but they wouldn't be out of business
This is correct. “AI” has simply been stapled onto a bunch of established properties, and injected into a bunch of places without permission. I have several clients who are small healthcare providers, and I have had to beat Copilot off with my HIPAA-shaped stick, but it’s not been easy, as it just shows up in some other place (or even gets reinstalled entirely), so now update Tuesday has become “scan-endpoints-for-copilot-again-Tuesday” (Taco Tuesday and Two For Tuesday on 99.7 FM remain unaffected).
I think it’s really telling that AI could disappear tomorrow, and aside from a gigantic hole where half a trillion bucks used to be, not much would really change.