Brutkey

Taggart
@mttaggart@infosec.exchange

So this sucks.

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. Microsoft isn’t replacing Dohmke’s CEO position, and the rest of GitHub’s leadership team will now report more directly to Microsoft’s CoreAI team.

https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition

A feral Natalie
@some_natalie@infosec.exchange

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange (I was @ GitHub until early 2024 - any current MSFT folks would have a better org chart than me and I'll edit it if/as corrected)

CoreAI is gigantic. IIRC, it also encompasses Modern Work (Office 365 productivity stuff), Developer Tools (Visual Studio and Azure DevOps), and a few other large organizations. I thought it was also where GitHub's CEO was reporting into on the org chart anyways too. Azure is actually only Azure metal and services, not everything with "Azure" in the name.

Not saying this isn't bad news or anything ... but GitHub was well and truly already part of MSFT during my time there. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Taggart
@mttaggart@infosec.exchange

@some_natalie@infosec.exchange It does seem rather big, although I'm not sure why that's...better? The idea that GitHub becomes—even nominally—yet another vessel for Satya's AI obsession without an internal advocate doesn't seem great. It most certainly doesn't inspire confidence in the product for me, or that I won't be further exploited for using it.

A feral Natalie
@some_natalie@infosec.exchange

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange

yet another vessel for Satya's AI obsession without an internal advocate doesn't seem great.

A feral Natalie
@some_natalie@infosec.exchange

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange I guess it's less "everything is fine" or "everything is terrible" and more "the org chart hasn't really changed much" and "we said the quiet part out loud"