[gerdesj]

I would suggest your CTO needs some gentle reminders about risk management and how the cloud really works.

If your boss is that daft, its probably a sign to bail out. Remember to do your own personal due diligence. Due dill is not something that you just do for someone else: do your own! Do your own personal risk assessment. If code was lost, who would be found accountable? You or them?

EDIT: PS - I am a CTO ...

[wewewedxfgdf]

But it's github ...... it can't be lost.

Unless github closes the account, or a hacker gets access, or a rogue employee gets mad and deletes all, or some development accident results in repo deletion, or etc etc.

[SanjayMehta]

Or if the one employee who created the account and was paying for it on his personal credit card and then got laid off.

And no one else in the company knew what GitHub was.

[robotnikman]

Is there a story behind this oddly specific comment?

[speeder]

Not op but I saw this happen kinda maliciously...

Company was founded by "visionary" CEO that is an sculptor and doesn't understand tech.

Most crucial employee is young guy hired right out of college.

Company now has 50+ developers, but the critical software is still made by that guy several years later.

Critical guy still get recent graduate salary, notices he is actually the most important person in the company, and asks for a raise.

Company denies his raise. He quits. Company hire a bunch of developers from cheap third world countries to replace him...

Company learns: 1. All software guy made a bit before he asked for a raise was on his personal, not company github. 2. The software is in other programming languages, not the one the company uses normally. 3. Everything the guy wrote since he joined the company, is extremely difficult to maintain, guy is a genius and all his code is correct, clean and well made, but his thought patterns and how they end in the code are just too different, and all people that worked with him before also were geniuses and didn't care the code was "crazy".

Note: the "other geniuses" mentioned above, also quit when other companies made them great offer and the stingy employer refused them a raise too.

[SanjayMehta]

Was this company doing voice recognition for IVR systems, like 25 years ago?

[SanjayMehta]

Happened where I used to work.

The guy writing scripts for a hardware test platform hosted them on a paid GitHub account.

System would pull the latest files off GitHub until the account ran out and the whole thing broke, months after he was gone.

[weikju]

Gotta add AI agents to that list