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Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub
- johndoe0815 1y ago[flagged]
- FirmwareBurner 1y agoHe got replaced by AI?
- anon_e-moose 1y agoMaybe he did not embrace AI enthusiastically enough... https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8 https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrac...
- alwahi 1y agoone can hope
- breakingcups 1y agoIn a way, yes! > GitHub and its leadership team will continue its mission as part of Microsoft’s CoreAI organization, with more details shared soon.
- mxstbr 1y agoIt'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…
- camdroidw 1y agoIt's also a common goodbye message from "cool people" lol, I won't read too much into it.
- ethan_smith 1y agoThe reference likely hints at GitHub's transformation under Microsoft - the dolphins (Thomas and team) foresaw changes coming (AI integration and corporate direction) and are gracefully departing before the "demolition" of what GitHub originally stood for.
- flohofwoe 1y agoI rather think the AI integration was mainly driven by this dude, given his recent dumb AI related tweets before he was stepped down.
- arp242 1y ago> I wonder what he's implying about GitHub Nothing. It's just a common(-ish) reference/joke.
- croemer 1y agoYeah, I didn't know it was a reference to something - it was just a saying to me without any background context.
- threetonesun 1y agoYes. I've also used this when leaving a job, albeit with a slight modification since the job did not provide fish. I suppose you could read it with the subtext that the dolphins are saying "see ya suckers" but I think it's more appropriate to read it as the dolphins actually saying "thank you" even though things didn't entirely work out.
- addandsubtract 1y ago"Thanks for all the phish." scp emails.db tom@dohmke.dev:/home/.
- o_m 1y agoI had a coworker say this when quitting. Most people that knew the reference interpreted it in a negative way. I would not recommend using it because of how ambiguous it is
- msgodel 1y agotbh I had never thought carefully about it until now. I always got excited hearing it from other people thinking "Oh another person who likes Douglas Adam's book!" I'm kind of glad I read this thread though, I can see why it could stress people out.
- Insanity 1y agoOne of my reports was a hardcore HHGG fan, including carrying a towel on towel day. He signed off with the "so long and thanks for all the fish", and I don't think anyone read anything negative into this. In fact, while that was some years ago, it was a tight-knit team and we still meet up for dinner with the original team members about 2-3x a year :)
- nottorp 1y ago> I wonder what he's implying about GitHub… Don't forget to carry a towel at all times, of course!
- imglorp 1y agoOr don't listen to Vogon poetry.
- BirAdam 1y agowell, the rest of it, at least from the BBC TV series: so long and thanks for all the fish, so sad that it should come to this, the world's about to be destroyed, there's no point getting all annoyed, lie back and let the planet dissolve
- bgwalter 1y agoHe is probably just trying to sound cool after years of being an "AI" apparatchik. GitHub stole our code under the pretense of "democratizing" software development (while people in poor countries cannot afford the plagiarism machine).
- xena 1y agoDon't read too much into it. It's a common sign-off in GitHub's internal culture for when people leave.
- nativeit 1y agoVogsphere 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…
- nativeit 1y agoIt would make a great name for an AI startup.
- sebstefan 1y ago>guiding us into the age of Copilot and AI, it has been the ride of a lifetime. Cool. Can we get faster load times on that mess of a SPA now instead of more AI stuff?
- fareesh 1y agoisnt it a rails mpa with some modern layers on top?
- fkyoureadthedoc 1y agowhy bother to know that when you can just deride one of HN's favorite things to hate?
- ndiddy 1y agoThey've been rewriting more and more of the site in React as time's gone on, and all new development has been in React. This means we get fun stuff like diffs being slow to load and failing to load at all when they're too large, the browser back button being unreliable, the code viewer being laggy for viewing large files, etc. Generally they don't seem to care about the site becoming as slow and janky as Gitlab.
- vasachi 1y agoGiven that it’s going to be a part of “Microsoft CoreAI organization”, whatever that is, there will be even more AI stuff.
- sebstefan 1y agoI don't mind more AI stuff even if I don't use it. The fact that they've been neglecting the core user experience is more of my complaint
- danny_codes 1y agoI mean it’s Microsoft. The UI experience will decline until it reaches Teams level. A good opportunity for a new git hosting service to emerge to fill the void.
- moomin 1y agoWithout checking the article… do you know the name of who write the article?
- evbogue 1y agoYes, I also thought Satya Nadella was stepping down from his role as CEO of Github.
- Minor49er 1y agoBut he never had that role. Satya is the CEO of Microsoft
- toxican 1y agoI read the title too quickly, assumed it was some German guy named Auf, then realized I was an idiot a few minutes later.
- stavros 1y agoHell, I don't know the name even after I checked the article. I've never heard of him before.
- xnx 1y agoIt'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.
- bombcar 1y agoIt really depends on how the structure of the company is setup. If they're just a division, they're not really a CEO; but if all Microsoft did is buy up all the shares of Github, and otherwise left them alone, they really ARE the CEO. Until the shareholder decides to tell the board to fire him.
- marcianx 1y agoMajor 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.
- alargemoose 1y agoIt’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.
- zanellato19 1y agoWhat is a CEO if not a high level manager?
- xnx 1y agoAll CEOs are managers, but not all managers are CEOs. A CEO is the highest ranking executive.
- neom 1y agoAm I the only one who find it a bit uncouth/weird to do this last week https://ashtom.github.io/developers-reinvented https://ashtom.github.io/developers-reinvented and peace out this week?
- shawn-butler 1y agoHe made his money, he doesn't care who starves now
- klaustopher 1y agoHe already made his money when they sold HockeyApp to MSFT
- flohofwoe 1y agoI bet this was the reason why he suddenly "resigned".
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- ryandv 1y agoGood riddance. I'd never even heard of this man until he came out telling developers to "get out of your career" [0] after stealing all their open source code for Copilot. Instant animosity. GitHub is completely unrecognizable compared to how it was before being gamified and turned into social media. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44808645 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44808645
- fkyoureadthedoc 1y ago> gamified and turned into social media. What makes you think this? I use it for work and it's never been better in terms of features, and is just as reliable as usual. I honestly have no idea what you're talking about with gamification and social media. The only gamification I can think of is the commit graph which has been a thing for at least a decade.
- herbst 1y ago> just as reliable as usual The widespread downtime issues the last years aren't what I call usual
- ryandv 1y ago> I honestly have no idea what you're talking about with gamification and social media. The only gamification I can think of is the commit graph which has been a thing for at least a decade. There was a time before "achievements" or badges and NARCISSISM.MD files on your profile page. The UI has clearly regressed in terms of performance and responsiveness over the years, when GitHub insisted on making the code viewer a pseudo-IDE. There was even an article making this observation here on HN just last week [0]. Do you seriously feel that GitHub of 2025 has had less outages and more stability than GitHub of 2015? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44799861 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44799861
- fkyoureadthedoc 1y agoI'm sure if you count incidents vs 2015, 2025 has more. But it also has more scale in every aspect. More features, more users, etc. Over the years of using GitHub I've only been blocked from doing dev activities a handful of times because of GitHub outages. None of them are very memorable. I appreciate the enhancements to the code viewer, like jumping between symbols.
- __jonas 1y ago> 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?
- bsimpson 1y agoThat'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-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas...
- alternatex 1y agoInfernally known as the "move fast break things" org
- AlOwain 1y agoI mean, to be fair, it seems to be the prevailing culture in GitHub for a while now, to quote Nat Friedman[1]; "It's important to do things fast . . . Going fast makes you focus on what's important; there's no time for bullshit". [1] https://nat.org/ https://nat.org/
- ahartmetz 1y agoWell, Nat Friedman is an expert++ level bullshitter, so he should know all about bullshit. /s
- ivandenysov 1y agoI always knew Vista was a window into hell
- alberth 1y agoThat’s worrying given how far behind its perceived the CoreAI products are relative to competitors.
- rethab 1y agowhat's his next thing, is that known?
- jerlam 1y agoAccording 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 https://www.axios.com/2025/08/11/github-ceo-dohmke-step-down
- AdmiralAsshat 1y agoAI is so powerful nowadays that they figured they could replace the CEO position with AI.
- tempodox 1y agoIn this case, I even suspect it’s possible.
- sylens 1y agoFor the people who are leaving GitHub due to concerns over Copilot stealing their code, where are you going? GitLab? Self hosting your own?
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- Catbert59 1y agoI always have a private Gitea instance running for my private projects. VPS are cheap in 2025 and it doesn't eat much resources.
- seanw444 1y agoAlso heard good things about Forgejo.
- CraigRood 1y agoI run Gitea too - Seeing what is happening over at GitHub solidifies my decision. Not too concerned over my public facing repos, Amazon and OpenAI seem to love 'em! I have the ultimate control over my private repos (nothing juicy). I can't say I trust Microsoft not to do something I don't like at any point in the future. Edit: I should say I wish phabricator got more love, that was a great tool!
- zenethian 1y ago> GitHub and its leadership team will continue its mission as part of Microsoft’s CoreAI organization, with more details shared soon. Just in case you thought that Microsoft considered GitHub to be a development tool.
- rvz 1y agoNow there is no CEO of GitHub to contact the next time it goes down. GitHub is done.
- zoobab 1y agoGithub still is not accessible over IPv6. WTH.
- unquietwiki 1y agoI regularly see that complaint over on r/ipv6. Maybe the new guy will ask for it???
- dang 1y agoRelated ongoing thread: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865560 - Aug 2025 (18 comments)
- yubblegum 1y ago"Managing agents to achieve outcomes may sound unfulfilling to many, although we argue that’s what developers have been doing on a lower level of abstraction, managing their computers via programming languages to achieve outcomes." [From another one of his blogs] That actually pissed me off. Here I thought I was creative work all these years and here comes this corporate drone telling us we were "managing outcomes".
- leoc 1y ago(Cross-posting from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44867429 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44867429 .) I've seen enough: as the recognised authority and designated responsible person ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7525256 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7525256 I'm officially recognising this as the final end of 2010s Cool Microsoft. > 74 points by leoc on April 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler > Well, here we are then. This now officially the standard play for formerly-dominating computer-platform firms who have fallen on hard times: having before been proudly hard-nosed and proprietary, publicly see the light and present a new image as a new, kinder, gentler company which totally gets it about openness. Former famous examples: IBM under Lou Gerstner (we love Linux and open platforms!), Apple after the NeXT acquisition but before the iPhone (look how expandable our new PowerMacs are; on the software side, we're now an open-systems-loving Unix vendor, and we'll even open-source our kernel!), poor old SGI (we love Linux now! Or, wait ... actually WinNT, whatever.). Sun of course used to go back and forth between being chill dudes who totally get it and more nakedly hard-nosed. As always in these cases, the questions are how far the bright new era of glasnost actually goes in substance (IBM legal's patent monster quietly thrived through all the kinder-gentler period) and how long it lasts (these eras tend to end with the company either dwindling into irrelevance, or finding renewed success and going back to its bad old ways). Historical debate may now begin.
- pxeger1 1y agoDid 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.
- hoppp 1y agoI am thinking of migrating all my code from there to self hosted. If now github is part of the Ai team at microsoft then I really don't want to give them more of my code as Im kind of moving on from open source to making projects closed, I dont see a reason to have a closed source project there
- blks 1y agoI wonder how much crime the ms has committed by training their AI on someone else’s code. I wonder if they dipped their fingers in private repositories, too.