alt Hacker NewsI'm surprised GitHub got by acting fairly independently inside Microsoft for so long. I'm also surprised GitHub employees expected that to last
The real problem today IMO is that Microsoft waited so long to drop the charade that they now felt like they had to rip the bandaid. From what I've heard the transition hasn't gone very smoothly at all, and they've mostly been given tight deadlines with little to no help from Microsoft counterparts.
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It operated with an independent CEO for a long while.
When I saw his interview: https://thenewstack.io/github-ceo-on-why-well-still-need-hum... i thought "oh, there is some semblance of sanity at Microsoft".
This was after seeing those ridiculous PRs where microsoft engineers patiently deconstructed AI slop PRs they were forced to deal with on the open source repos they maintained.
When he was gone a few months later and github was folded into microsoft's org chart the writing was firmly on the wall.
If this were a place for memes, then I'd share that swimming pool meme with Microsoft holding up copilot while GitHub is drowning.
Then Azure Dev Ops (formerly known as Visual Studio Team System) dead o n the ocean floor.
Although given how badly GitHub seems to be doing, perhaps it's better to be ignored.