By TOI Tech Desk
Publication Date: 2026-01-12 04:36:00
Microsoft is scrambling to keep GitHub relevant as a new breed of AI coding tools threatens to leave it behind. The company has started reshuffling teams and moving engineers around to turn its $7.5 billion acquisition into something more than just a code storage platform—it wants GitHub to become the command center for AI-powered software development.The problem is clear: developers are increasingly drawn to nimble AI-first rivals like Cursor and Anthropic’s Claude Code, which offer a different vision of what coding with AI should feel like. GitHub had the early advantage with its partnership with OpenAI, but that head start is eroding fast.
