GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says he will “leave GitHub to become a founder again”, with GitHub and its leadership team moving into Microsoft's CoreAI organization
once independent programming site now part of ‘CoreAI’ team Todd Bishop / GeekWire : GitHub will join Microsoft's CoreAI division with departure of CEO Thomas Dohmke Kaustubh Bagalkote / Benzinga : Microsoft's GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke To Exit By Year-End For New Startup Anuj Bhatia / The Indian Express : GitHub CEO steps down as Microsoft integrates platform into CoreAI division amid rising competition in the AI coding market NDTV Profit : Who Is Thomas Dohmke? GitHub CEO Resigns, To Become Startup Founder Again Rishaj Upadhyay / Windows Report : GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke Announces To Step Down Ayush Mukherjee / Moneycontrol : GitHub loses CEO as Microsoft integrates it further into CoreAI team Laura Varley / Silicon Republic : GitHub further integrating with Microsoft's CoreAI team, as CEO resigns Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost : GitHub CEO Departs, Microsoft Puts It Under CoreAI Ross Kelly / ITPro : What Thomas Dohmke's departure means for GitHub Kuldeep Jha / Verdict : GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke to depart for new startup venture Aiko Gao Ishida / Tech in Asia : Microsoft restructures GitHub after CEO resigns Jordan Novet / CNBC : Microsoft's GitHub chief is leaving as competition ramps up in AI coding market Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : Microsoft to integrate GitHub more closely with its CoreAI unit after key executive's departure Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal : GitHub CEO Dohmke to Depart Microsoft Bluesky: @cliftonb : Hello. — GitHub is an AI company now. — www.theverge.com/news/757461/ ... Luckily, there are plenty of alternatives that aren't Microsoft. Laurie Voss / @seldo.com : Folding GitHub into the AI department sounds like weird empire-building internal to Microsoft with no strategic value. www.axios.com/2025/08/11/g... Hidde / @hidde.blog : the departing GitHub CEO thinks all those force-feeding-AI features devs complain about are the ‘greatest change to software development since the advent of the personal computer’ github.blog/news-insight... the excellent + reliable progressive enhancement UIs they used to have impressed much more Rich Stroffolino / @mranthropology : This part from @tomwarren.co.uk: “Today's change means GitHub no longer has a single leader, or CEO, and responsibility for GitHub will align more closely to the CoreAI leadership team.” Seems tailor made to make GitHub worse based on anything I've learned about orgs www.theverge.com/news/757461/ ... … Nick Ludlam / @nick.recoil.org : I'm looking forward to tracking the rise of @tangled.sh given the potential enshittification of Github now their CEO is out. www.theverge.com/news/757461/ ... @nican.net : GitHub is now an “AI agent factory” — www.theverge.com/news/757461/ ... Anna Cook / @annaecook : It's interesting that a week after this was posted the CEO resigned — www.theverge.com/news/757461/ ... [embedded post] Ingo Rohlfing / @ingorohlfing : GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation | The Verge — www.theverge.com/news/757461/ ... Github will be integrated into the CoreAI team. Whatever this will mean for Github's future. @mewtype.online : ever increasingly convinced MS laid off the team that kept the bad ideas team in check, and this is gunna make github so much worse and it already has a fucking inscrutable UX @xdaniel.neocities.org : Oh fuck you, Microsoft. Not like the previous CEO wasn't some AI techbro idiot too (at least at this point), but I'll be actively looking for alternatives to GitHub now due to this, I suppose :| [embedded post] @cyberciti.biz : This is big. 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 core AI engineering team. Github is no longer independent company. — www.theverge.com/news/757461/ ... Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : Microsoft is absorbing GitHub into the company and putting it under the purview of Jay Parikh, one of the biggest failsons in valley history. He ran Lacework into the ground then cashed out and went to Meta. Real piece of crap asshole — www.theinformation.com/articles/ how... [image] @kommac : Hm. Hmmm. Should I be looking into alternatives for GitHub and GitHub Pages? I've been trying to reduce my Microsoft use because of BDS, and with the resignation of its CEO there's even less separation between GitHub and its parent organization. @tef : this may be the first instance of an inverse-dhh — ceo “If you don't like it, quit” — [one week later] — ceo “it is time for the end of my journey at github” @brawaru : ngl. shortly after this guy became github ceo, github became an ai-driven nightmare that since released barely anything useful other than ai bs. last github universe keynote was entirely ai ai ai ai ai. good forking riddance — github.blog/news-insight... Steve Klabnik / @steveklabnik.com : Maybe GitHub will start caring about their actual product again — github.blog/news-insight... Mastodon: @hertg@infosec.exchange : Apparently GitHub will become part of Microsoft's “AI Team” [1]. Even reading the CEO's post about their departure reads like a fever dream. [2] — «I am more convinced than ever that the world will soon see one billion developers enabled by billions of AI agents» … Steve Troughton-Smith / @stroughtonsmith … : So when the AI bubble bursts, it's gonna take GitHub with it? Good, good. — https://fed.brid.gy/... Hidde / @hdv@front-end.social : the departing GitHub CEO thinks all those force-feeding-AI features devs complain about are the ‘greatest change to software development since the advent of the personal computer’ https://github.blog/... the excellent and reliable progressive enhancement architecture they used to have impressed much more. @mcc@mastodon.social : Several people sent me this: Github is no longer an independent company; rather as of today Github is *under* the AI team. As far as I'm concerned, this is an open admission the function of Github is not to host source code, but rather as an intake for Microsoft to *harvest* source code to train their AI. … X: Thomas Dohmke / @ashtom : After nearly four years as CEO, I'm leaving GitHub to become a startup founder again. With more than 1B repos and forks, 150M+ developers, and Copilot continuing to lead the most thriving market in AI with 20M users and counting, GitHub has never been stronger than it is today. Erica Brescia / @ericabrescia : A huge congrats to Thomas on his run at GitHub. The title of his post - “Goodbye GitHub” - looks like it has dual meaning... Reading between the lines, GitHub is being fully merged into CoreAI at Microsoft. It has been going in that direction for the past 3.5 yrs, but this marks the end of an era 😢 Goodbye, GitHub. Jordan Michaels / @utdream : @Pirat_Nation Alternatives: Gitea, Gitlab, Bitbucket, etc. Most alternatives are FLOSS already or have FLOSS versions available. Alex / @alexgrama : @Pirat_Nation “no longer independent”? it hasn't been independent since microsoft dropped $7.5 billion on it back in 2018. are we really surprised? this wasn't some sudden hostile takeover, it's the inevitable next phase. because Copilot was just the start. the long-term plan is obviously to @degmods : @Pirat_Nation As soon as the nicer version of the GitHub alternative gets released, one that's built using censorship-resistant and permissionless tech, the same stuff we're using, we'll be using it and inform everyone of it. Dan Burkland / @dburkland : @WholeMarsBlog Uhhhh, please don't break GitHub @Microsoft Steven Daugherty / @stevendaugherty : @WholeMarsBlog I'm surprised it's taken this long. At least my meetings with my GitHub account team will be on Teams instead of Zoom :-) Professor Tom / @professor_tomm : @WholeMarsBlog Meow, No way! #GitHub without a CEO, steered directly by #Microsoft, changes the whole dynamic. Let's hope “closely direct” doesn't turn into “slowly smother.” Taha Tesser / @tahatesser : If the most popular developers platform in the world cannot be independent, then what can be? Microsoft better reverse course here and get a new GitHub CEO and make a promise to never think of such move ever again. Mario Rodriguez / @mariorod1 : Today we celebrate @ashtom, who is stepping down as GitHub's CEO. And while I'm excited for what comes next for him, I can't help but reflect on the journey we've shared since 2018. When we started, we had a simple obsession: give developers the best tools on the planet. That north star mission- accelerating human progress through developer collaboration- has driven every late night, every prototype, every customer meeting, and every hard decision we've made together. @josephpollack : with @ashtom leaving forever , @github will no longer have an independent CEO and will be part of @microsoft “core ai” group. you might have enjoyed vibe coding , but will you love vibe source code management ? @nixcraft : GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned, and now GitHub will be part of Microsoft's AI engineering team. GitHub has operated as a separate company ever since Microsoft acquired it in 2018 for $7.5 billion, but Dohmke's departure is part of a big shakeup to the way GitHub operates [image] @torchandzen : another github ceo starting a new startup, seems like github is the new incubator Danny Thompson / @dthompsondev : The GitHub CEO announced that he is stepping down: - They are not filling his spot - GitHub was always separate from Microsoft since Microsoft acquired it in 2018 for over $7 billion, but now, GitHub and its Leadership team will report to Microsoft's CoreAI team. I guess you [image] Kieran / @operatortriz : @ashtom inb4 github now becomes a complete paywall heathen with the new ceo Doug Finke / @dfinke : Just yesterday was mulling GitHub CEO recent post “embrace AI or find a new career.” Hotter than Satya's mellow AI pitch. Wondered if it meant anything. Today he quits as GitHub CEO for a startup. Interesting... did I manifest this or just call the shot? https://www.linkedin.com/... [image] Shyam Varan Nath / @shyamvaran : GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke to step down, plans new startup https://finance.yahoo.com/... Are we heading to another version of the “Great Reshuffle!” @EvanKirstel Simon Willison / @simonw : I expect this is going to make the confusion over what “Copilot” is even more intense. seeing as Microsoft Copilot and GitHub Copilot are presumably both under the same “Microsoft CoreAI” group now Ina Fried / @inafried : Exclusive: GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke is leaving to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors. Microsoft isn't filling the spot. LinkedIn: Kyle Daigle : Celebrating a truly epic ride from Thomas Dohmke. 🚀 — Under his leadership, we've seen the definition of what's possible expand again and again … Mario Rodriguez : Today we recognize Thomas Dohmke, who is stepping down as GitHub's CEO. 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