Aral Balkan

GitHub CEO: Embrace AI or get out.

https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8

PS. Here’s where to go: @Codeberg

https://codeberg.org

(As an additional bonus, you’ll have the peace of mind of knowing you’re part of an anti-fascist not-for-profit cooperative instead of a trillion-dollar US corporation that’s helping Israel commit genocide.)

#git #sourceControl #revisionControl #GitHub #Codeberg #dev #AI #BigTech #Microsoft #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.

Thomas Dohmke wrote that humans are often resistant to change. He said that's okay, but these people should probably find another profession.

Business Insider
Aug 6, 2025 at 9:09amWeb
Show threadrefraction Aug 6, 2025
@aral curious how people that no longer learn to code are supposed to "manage and verify AI outputs"
Show threadAral BalkanAug 6, 2025
@elexia Ah, see, the problem is you’re applying logic to greed… :)
Show threadthinkbeforecodingAug 6, 2025
@aral @Codeberg if they have to resort to menace and shovel it into everyone's throat... this says a lot about the state of this technology and how much developers actually want to use it.
Show threadthinkbeforecodingAug 6, 2025
@aral @Codeberg developers have been early adopters of every technology that made their life easier. Why would they resist if it was that good?
Show threadthinkbeforecodingAug 6, 2025
@aral @Codeberg remember autonomous vehicules ? I compiled a list of 10 articles from 2012 to 2022 saying their would be no more human driving in 5 years...
Show threadכָּלב Aug 6, 2025
@aral @Codeberg is good but this reminds me of a fellow gay guy I knew who turned everything into a gay rights issue. Speaking of gay rights: How are LGBTQ rights in Palestine? Are there Pride marches yet? I hope so.
Show threadDźwiedziuAug 6, 2025

@aral
It took me 5 seconds to find tools to migrate your repos (not posting, as I don't have the space to test them).

I was however looking for something to make a more formal–ish fork of a repo on GH to CB, except just uploading the code and making a note “forked from: ” (maybe that's enough, I'm not forking often).

@Codeberg

Show threadכָּלב Aug 6, 2025
@aral @Codeberg Also #FreeTibet #BoycottChina
Show threadEric EggertAug 6, 2025

@aral @Codeberg I love that it’s 22 random developers (or devs that are on his payroll and would say anything that their boss wants them to say?), so the source is basically: Trust me, tech bro.

It’s all so bizarre.

Show threadMichael Eggers 🇺🇦🇪🇺Aug 6, 2025
@aral @Codeberg Haha. Yeah, I started to move to sourcehut and it is great. Sure, not as flashy but it works really well and the devs are no evil fuckfaces as the microsoft people are.
Show threadfirebreathingduckAug 6, 2025

@pythno @aral @Codeberg

I was going to promote SourceHut too. I have a paid account there (though I believe a lot of the features can be used without paying).

But Codeberg is great too, I'm not knocking it.

Show threadMax LeeAug 6, 2025
@pythno
Unfortunately Sourcehut still doesn't seem to want federation (at least as far as I know) while Codeberg is actively working towards getting ActivityPub support into forgejo.
Show threadMichael Eggers 🇺🇦🇪🇺Aug 6, 2025
@aral @Codeberg Original Blogpost is here: https://ashtom.github.io/developers-reinvented
Developers, Reinvented – Thomas Dohmke

What started as fear of AI replacing developers is switching to pragmatically embracing the ambitious reality of AI and viewing it as a growth opportunity. As we build the tools of tomorrow, we can usher developers through this reinvention of their role in ways that are intuitive, delightful, and cater to developers’ curiosity, keeping them fulfilled and happy during the transition. That makes us optimistic. Realistically.

Show threadStefan IhringerAug 6, 2025
@pythno @aral ah, of COURSE it has a Ghibli-style slop preview image.
Show threadToni AittoniemiAug 6, 2025

@aral @Codeberg If you’re against them stealing from you, you’re against ”progress”.

Sound like progress in a direction I don’t want to progress into!

Show threadHarald EilertsenAug 6, 2025
@Aral Balkan Even the Business Insider journalist seems to understand how bizarre this is:

This is the latest example of a strange marketing strategy by AI companies. Instead of selling products based on helpful features and letting users decide, executives often deploy scare tactics that essentially warn people they will become obsolete if they don't get on the AI bandwagon.

When the owner class needs to scare you into adopting their "tools", you know it's a scam.

I suggest Thomas Dohmke finds himself another profession. He's clearly unfit to understand how to manage developers.
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Show threadCody Boone FergusonAug 6, 2025
@aral @Codeberg he is a bloody idiot. He doesn’t even know what #AI is! He means #LLM. LLM generates buggy code and often doesn’t even compile. Often it is not portable. It is non deterministic. That alone should say everything. The AI craze is the tech Frankenstein and it’s a giant scam. I wouldn’t worry about what someone who clearly doesn’t know what he’s talking about let alone his arse from his elbow is talking about. AI my arse.
Show threadCody Boone FergusonAug 6, 2025
@aral @Codeberg and someone should start a list of all the broken code LLM has generated and link back to his post. Maybe I should. Just a matter of finding the time. He doesn’t have a bloody clue. It’s just noise from a person who clearly doesn’t know much about programming if he knows anything about it at all.
Show threadAral BalkanAug 6, 2025
@xexyl @Codeberg To quote Upton Sinclair (likely badly from memory), it’s difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends on his not understanding it.
Show threadCody Boone FergusonAug 6, 2025
@aral @Codeberg That's a classic - and so very very true! I think also that CEOs (I think I saw that) really are not only clueless but totally out of touch. Even OpenAI - the name - is a misnomer at best. They can talk about it being #AI all they want but the fact ChatGPT doesn't learn (memories don't count) and will give different answers over and over again says it all. We should be thankful. But perhaps not: google's so-called 'AI' Overview has said some extremely dangerous and deadly things!
Show threadCody Boone FergusonAug 6, 2025
@aral @Codeberg I have seen it suggest that you can use petrol as a spice. It has suggested eating arse is healthy. Eating stones is healthy (from a satirical article). Actually stones and petrol can and likely will kill you (some #Holocaust victims actually tried it out of starvation, eating stones, and died). Worse one: telling if you're depressed you could jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. But I have seen other awful things and it also generates broken code even worse than #ChatGPT
Show threadFilippo GonteriAug 6, 2025
@aral @Codeberg
Merci @Codeberg
https://codeberg.org
Codeberg.org

Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

Codeberg.org
Show threadClaudiusAug 6, 2025

@aral @Codeberg My Github Profile now looks like this:

https://github.com/ccoenen/

Show threadAral BalkanAug 6, 2025
@claudius @Codeberg Nice :)
Show threadDjoerd Hiemstra 🍉Aug 6, 2025
@aral @claudius @Codeberg Nice! This is mine: https://github.com/djoerd
djoerd - Overview

I left github. Find me on codeberg.org. GitHub is where djoerd builds software.

GitHub
Show threadClaudiusAug 6, 2025
@djoerd looks very clean :-)
Show threadMax LeeAug 6, 2025
@claudius
Gonna steal this wording.
@aral @Codeberg
Show threadClaudiusAug 6, 2025
@the_moep @aral @Codeberg feel free :-)
Show threadjon crowcroftAug 6, 2025
@aral @Codeberg https://fishcalledbush.blogspot.com/2025/08/with-gods-on-our-side.html
with gods on our side....

 If I was more philosophically inclined, I'd observe that the last time we had such a shift in the notion of what constituted "power" was th...

Show threadFred BeatAug 6, 2025
@aral @Codeberg Codeberg Rocks! Using it all the time. 💛
Show threadJakob ChristensenAug 6, 2025
@aral
@davidgerard did you see this?
Show threadJack NuttingAug 6, 2025
@aral @Codeberg How surprising that the CEO of a Microsoft company would have such a know-it-all, exclusionary attitude! Oh, did I say "surprising", I meant "typical"
Show threadThree plus or minus fiveAug 6, 2025

@aral @Codeberg
Can anyone recommend similar services for private repos? I have a half-dozen private projects I want to keep in the cloud, and I want my resume hosted on a static site.

Ideally something that runs forgejo, since we're using that for work, and hosted outside the US because <waves arms>.

Sourcehut looks neat, but not sure it's mature yet.

Show threadMax LeeAug 6, 2025
@ThreeSigma
The linked Codeberg.org can do that (they offer both private repos and a static page system similar to GitHub), although if you want to only have private repos then your own install might be fairer as Codeberg is kinda focused on open source.
Show threadramblingsteveAug 6, 2025
@aral @Codeberg me thinks the tech bro doth protest too much! If his product is so great then why does he need to force his customers to use it? This isn't an industrial revolution; it's a cargo cult.
Show threadbignoseAug 6, 2025
@aral https://programming.dev/post/35100238
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen - programming.dev

Lemmy

Show threadMalcontent Creator Aug 6, 2025
@aral what a depressing read, that « blog post ». These people have no vision and believe in nothing, so they are bound to prey on the living.
@Codeberg
Show threadAral BalkanAug 7, 2025
@geist @Codeberg It’s what vampires do.
Show threadDaniël Franke Aug 7, 2025
@aral @geist @Codeberg Vampires are at least attractive and cultured (depending on the version)... So I'm not sure if that's a fair comparison.
Show threadAral BalkanAug 7, 2025

@ainmosni @geist @Codeberg Renfield has joined the chat.

:P

Show threadDarrenAug 7, 2025

@aral @Codeberg also ..

https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen

Update 8/8/2025 – I wrote this the day before a certain post by a popular developer services company. I’ve seen some comments this is a rebuttal – it wasn’t meant to be! But…

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