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Before CoreAI There Was Builder.ai

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 20, 2025

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Published yesterday: Microsoft said “GitHub and its leadership team will continue its mission as part of Microsoft’s CoreAI organisation.” But it's just an empty shell created earlier this year.

Microsoft said “GitHub and its leadership team will continue its mission as part of Microsoft’s CoreAI organisation.” But it's just an empty shell created earlier this year.

3 months ago:

HTTPS image: Once worth over $1B, Microsoft-backed Builder.ai is running out of money: No, it was a scam

Earlier this year Microsoft made up this thing called "CoreAI", mostly announced by Microsoft's media operatives (whose purpose is to parrot or shadow Microsoft). There is so little information about what it actually is, except that it's run by someone Microsoft hired from Facebook ("Meta") and lacks many real accomplishments unless one relies on shallow hagiographies (articles planted out there for PR purposes).

Worse yet, there's no indication it makes money and it has the makeup of a giant Ponzi scheme, riding a hype wave not meant to last, only to attract lawsuits and irritate computer users.

The mention of CoreAI coincided with lies (vapourware) told by Microsoft's President - lies that were quickly thereafter disproved by the company's own actions. This leads us to the conclusion that Microsoft folding/tossing GitHub onto the "CoreAI" bucket is a sign that 1) GitHub loses a ton of money; 2) Microsoft does not know how to stop those losses as it already shut down GitHub offices and laid off many GitHub workers, even in India (where salaries were low anyway); 3) Microsoft may be preparing to mothball GitHub like it did Skype a few months ago [1, 2, 3]. Not many people saw that coming, right? We correctly predicted this outcome only months earlier.

lies (vapourware) told by Microsoft's President

GitHub isn't about "AI" (just a bunch of lies and storytelling for shareholders' patience); all the slop that Microsoft tries to integrate into GitHub irritates developers and attracts major lawsuits. █

↺ HTTPS: irritates developers

HTTPS: attracts major lawsuits

HTTPS: █

HTTPS image: AI slop attacks on the curl project

Also see: Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports | Open source project curl is sick of users submitting “AI slop” vulnerabilities

↺ HTTPS: Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports

↺ HTTPS: Open source project curl is sick of users submitting “AI slop” vulnerabilities

HTTPS image: This collection is limited to only include the reports that were submitted as security vulnerabilities to the curl bug-bounty program on Hackerone.

HTTPS image: The slop is also being actively encouraged by GitHub. I recently wrote about that on skaye.blog as well, and these developments are a terrifying prospect to me both as a user and a developer

This is not intelligence, it's slop. A lot of stuff described as "AI" turns out to be a giant scam.

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