It'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.”
Good 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.
According 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.
"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".
I've seen enough: as the recognised authority and designated responsible person ;) 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).
Did 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.
I 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
I 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.
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[ 7.6 ms ] story [ 38.4 ms ] threadJust 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…
Cool. Can we get faster load times on that mess of a SPA now instead of more AI stuff?
Satya Nadella is the CEO of Github because Github is part of Microsoft.
and peace out this week?
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
So the whole of GitHub is now seen primarily as an AI platform?
> 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
Just in case you thought that Microsoft considered GitHub to be a development tool.
GitHub is done.
WTH.
GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865560 - Aug 2025 (18 comments)
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".
I've seen enough: as the recognised authority and designated responsible person ;) 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.