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Microsoft’s GitHub was positioned to win the AI coding race. Outages got in the way
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- Microsoft had all the pieces to win in vibe coding, thanks to the near ubiquity of Git Hub, which the company bought for $7.5 billion in 2018.
- GitHub's reliability challenges in recent months have affected companies as large as Cisco, and have been chronicled by influential names in software development.
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Microsoft had all the pieces to win in vibe coding, thanks to the near ubiquity of Git Hub, which the company bought for $7.5 billion in 2018.
But repeated outages, executive turnover, and the soaring popularity of newer tools like Cursor and Anthropic's Claude Code have eaten away at Git Hub's early advantage in generative artificial intelligence, creating another challenge for Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella as he attempts to straighten out his company's AI story.
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