Comment by brailsafe
2 days ago
Your link references a Business Insider editorial—possibly written by ai—that intentionally misquotes him.
The title of that article is "GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out."
and in that article, the quote is:
> "Either you have to embrace the Al, or you get out of your career," Dohmke wrote, citing one of the developers who GitHub interviewed.
but the text in the blog post that BI cited was:
> The developers who found success with AI tools have a strong underlying motivation to prepare for what they anticipate will be an overhaul of their profession. To that end, they relentlessly experiment with various AI tools, even when the tools aren’t consistently helpful. “Either you have to embrace the Al, or you get out of your career” one developer said.
Which honestly seems like poor phrasing on the supposed developer's part, but it wasn't the CEO saying it. Entropy all the way down.
Edit: Nevermind, apparently he did say that in various social media posts. It seems like an intentionally outrageous move that's been pretty typical of CEOs lately, but he did say it. Incidentally, I'm happy I'm so out of touch with other social media that I didn't know lol
He did use it as the opening line in his tweet, making it look like a statement he was making. No quotation marks around it or anything.
https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6660a5bfdcf6c5fbf039f446/...
Ya fair enough, LinkedIn too. I'm happy that I don't check any of those platforms enough to have even considered checking, but he did say it apparently.
This is just laundering editorial through some anonymous phantom; if he didn't offer any qualification or pushback, he's effectively endorsing the opinions being expressed. At the end of the article he also talks about devs being mere humans being reluctant to change and how "that's okay". This is very typical C-suite therapy speak. There's no need to unpack _why_ the skepticism exists, it just needs to be worked around until the inevitable truth™ is accepted.