GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft
theverge.com
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This kind of turmoil is dangerous for even the healthiest business, and yet GitHub has been shitting the bed left and right for years now, and the shitting is still accelerating. It's rather unbelievable.
Even if they had a solid plan and somehow could execute, I don't see how they can come back from this.
I think they're fully cooked.
MS should be hiring the best of the best and let them choose what, if any, agents they use to accelerate their work. They should also probably reduce some team sizes and bring in higher paid senior talent. One of my all time favorite projects consisted of all very senior level developers... was it perfect or bug free, nope... but what it was is consistent and higher caliber than any other project I've worked on. Someone says they'll have their component or API ready for you on Weds, it'll be there.
Now, it'll be there, but run poorly, have a wrong implementation and need to rework the entire interface 4-5 times before settling on something usable, all while other groups are still stuck on a prior version because of pressure from upstream to deliver "features" over stability.
It ingests delicious things and turns them into piles of shit and hot air.
> Since Dohmke’s departure, there’s been an ongoing talent drain at GitHub. Some GitHub employees have followed Dohmke to his Entire startup[0], a new developer platform that looks like it will compete directly with GitHub. Out of the 30 employees listed at Entire, at least 11 of them used to work at GitHub.