“And as another sign of cost cutting, it’s moving its laptop refresh cycle from three to four years.”
GitHub cuts up to 10% of roughly 3,000 staff, closes every office as leases end, and moves its video calls to Microsoft Teams. CEO Thomas Dohmke calls Copilot the most successful launch in company history in the same memo. The money goes to AI. The people who built the product get COBRA and an extra year on their old laptops.