GitHub is Dead: Microsoft’s AI Takeover is Total and Unstoppable

Hello everyone. Well, here we go again – another piece of tech “news” that reads less like a press release and more like the script of a company slowly mutating into a full-blown corporate hydra. GitHub’s CEO, Thomas Dohmke, has decided to “become a startup founder again,” which is corporate-speak for, “I’ve seen enough of this AI assimilation machine and will be bailing before I become another cog in its gears.” After nearly four years of service, he’s out – and Microsoft, ever the stealthy overlord, is tightening the leash even further by shoving GitHub deeper into its shiny new CoreAI team.

The Disappearing Act of GitHub Independence

Let’s be honest – the “independent GitHub” narrative has been on life support since the moment Microsoft backed a dump truck full of $7.5 billion cash into their driveway in 2018. This latest shake-up isn’t a shift; it’s the final nail in the coffin. No replacement CEO. No separate chain of command. The GitHub leadership now reports directly into a group whose mission is crystal clear: make AI the center of the universe, whether you, I, or the developers keeping this industry afloat like it or not.

If GitHub once played the role of the friendly neighborhood dev platform, now it’s being forcibly kitted out as an AI-weapon factory as designed by Jay Parikh – an ex-Meta veteran whose grand vision includes creating an “AI agent factory” for every enterprise. Lovely. Because nothing says “innovation” like uniform, mass-produced AI drones built under the watchful eye of a trillion-dollar mega-corp.

When Leadership Becomes a Committee

With no CEO, responsibility for GitHub spreads out into the CoreAI leadership boardroom like peanut butter on cardboard – thin, bland, and slightly stale. Oh, you wanted someone to actually steer the ship? Sorry, you’ll get a quarterly update PowerPoint instead. It’s reminiscent of a raid group where no one is the raid leader – just a bunch of people shouting instructions as the boss wipes you into oblivion.

Of course, this isn’t new for Microsoft. When Nat Friedman left in 2021, Dohmke was already reporting upward into the developer division hierarchy. The difference now is that the hierarchy? It’s been replaced by a monolithic AI command structure. Control has consolidated so tightly you could probably detect its gravitational pull.

The AI Endgame Theory

Reading between the lines – and let’s face it, that’s a skill you develop after enough years swimming through tech corporate announcements – this is less about GitHub’s “mission” and more about Microsoft’s AI expansionist agenda. We all know how this script goes: buy infrastructure, tie it into corporate objectives, run it through your AI factory, and watch the subscriptions and dependencies climb. For the dev community, it’s the same as waking up in your favorite MMO to discover the auction house now only accepts currency minted by one guild… the one that owns the entire server.

Dohmke’s Exit – Strategic Retreat?

I don’t blame Dohmke. If you’ve been thinking about competition, and your own company is pivoting itself into an AI-centric superweapon, maybe the healthiest move – from a medical perspective – is to excise yourself early before the tumor spreads. Picture me in a lab coat, shaking my head: “Doctor’s orders. Get out before they start rewriting your DNA.” He’ll be staying until the end of 2025, guiding the “transition” – which is another way of saying he’ll be smiling politely while his autonomy is quartered and sold for parts.

His next step? Building something potentially competitive to Microsoft’s AI efforts. Now that’s a plot twist worthy of a season finale – the escaped prisoner plotting revenge on the warden with the very tools they were trained to use.

Overall Impression

This isn’t innovation – it’s centralization disguised as strategic vision. If you’re a developer who liked GitHub for what it was, brace yourself. The friendly open-source watering hole is turning into an AI testing lab under corporate command. Whether that means better tools or suffocating control depends entirely on how tightly Microsoft holds the leash – and history suggests they’ve got a death grip.

Verdict: Bad for independence, good for Microsoft’s AI empire acceleration. For the rest of us? Put your game face on, because the boss fight just leveled up.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is entirely my opinion.

Article source: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation, The Verge.