Microsoft reshuffles teams to bolster GitHub as AI coding and agent wars heat up

Jay Parikh, CoreAI and engineering manager

Microsoft

• Microsoft is reshuffling teams to bolster its GitHub software development platform.
• It's part of a plan to overhaul GitHub to compete with AI coding tools, recent meeting audio shows.
• GitHub faces new AI rivals such as Cursor and Claude Code as developer preferences shift.

Microsoft wants to overhaul GitHub to compete with AI coding rivals and embrace AI agents, and the company has started reshuffling teams to make that happen...