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GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft
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TL;DR
- GitHub has suffered multiple major outages and security breaches recently.
- A talent drain has occurred, with former employees leaving for competing platforms.
- Leadership changes under Microsoft's CoreAI team have reportedly caused internal friction.
- Competitors like Entire, Cursor, and Claude Code are posing a threat to GitHub Copilot's market position.
- Recent security issues include a remote code execution vulnerability and a hack via a poisoned VS Code extension.
- Developers are expressing frustration with the platform's instability, leading some to leave.
- GitHub is migrating to Azure servers, a process that has contributed to outages.
- New usage-based billing for GitHub Copilot has drawn backlash from users.
- The platform is under pressure to improve availability, capacity, and performance, with AI coding being a key focus.