GitHub CEO resigns to go back to doing his own thing:

…my startup roots have begun tugging on me and I’ve decided to leave GitHub to become a founder again. GitHub and its leadership team will continue its mission as part of Microsoft’s CoreAI organization, with more details shared soon. I’ll be staying through the end of 2025 to help guide the transition and am leaving with a deep sense of pride in everything we’ve built as a remote-first organization spread around the world.

GitHub is a unique product that deserves to be run independently. But also, I’m not too worried about this change.

@manton strange that GitHub goes under CoreAI… is GitHub more about non AI stuff?

@numericcitizen Yeah, GitHub is much bigger than just AI, but I guess there’s enough overlap that Microsoft thinks it fits there.

@manton I’m surprised by this. He just appeared on the Decoder podcast last week. It didn’t seem like he was planning to leave. www.theverge.com/decoder-p…

@manton What about using something like codeberg.org instead? I’d definitely be interested in an alternative for backing up my Micro.blog-hosted blog.

@markstoneman Codeberg should be possible in the future. I recently rebuilt the GitHub support in Micro.blog so that it’s no longer tied to the GitHub-specific API.

@fiosracht I was surprised too. Certainly no hint of this just a week ago.