Their biggest business problem is that they can’t win at that mission in a way that nets the company a win, because the tools they use for basic literacy are all downstream of Github’s. Every time they improve something to gain a competitive advantage they end up giving the same advantage to their biggest competitor. Even their AI tech is downstream of their competitors’!
I mean, I used to have a lot more respect for Steve Yegge, but his post about joining SG was one of the last optimistic things written about the Sourcegraph platform, and one of the last genuinely optimistic things Steve has written (that also made me optimistic). I absolutely loved watching Prime disassemble Steve’s current view of the world in the most still-grounded-in-reality way possible.
Disclaimer: I am the author of a competing technology (BABLR), am banned from the Sourcegraph Discord for agitating for change, and am now CEO of the newly-born Silphium Labs: an org with the same mission as Sourcegraph but which still believes in transparency, open source, and the realistic possibility of bringing no-cost code literacy to everyone in the world