GitHub will become part of Microsoft’s CoreAI team, which is led by Jay Parikh, an executive hired earlier this year. — Photo by Mohammad Rahmani on Unsplash
The chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub is stepping down, a major change for a coding platform grappling with increasing competition over AI tools for programmers.
Thomas Dohmke said Monday that he was leaving the unit he has led for almost four years. In a blog post, he expressed thanks to employees, dubbed Hubbers, for "the ride of a lifetime.” Dohmke will remain at GitHub through the end of this year and then leave to become a founder, he said.
GitHub was early to artificial intelligence technology capable of automating parts of software development. Now, a growing number of companies, including Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Anthropic and Cursor maker Anysphere, are releasing rival AI products. OpenAI, backed by Microsoft, debuted a new model this month that it said performs better at coding tasks.
GitHub will become part of Microsoft’s CoreAI team, which is led by Jay Parikh, an executive hired earlier this year.
Acquired by Microsoft in 2018 for US$7.5bil (RM31.7bil), GitHub is widely used for programming and was the first Microsoft division to deploy an AI Copilot, a category of assistants the software giant is betting on for future revenue growth.
In a blog post last week, Dohmke encouraged coders to embrace rapid disruptions coming to the profession due to AI. "The software developer role is set on a path of significant change,” he wrote. – Bloomberg
