Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke Launches a GitHub Rival Where AI Agents Review the Code

Thomas Dohmke spent nearly four years running GitHub, the home of the pull request. Now he is selling developers a way to skip reading the code inside one. His startup Entire launched on Monday a full Git forge for hosting, reviewing and shipping code, pitched squarely as a GitHub alternative for teams whose AI agents write code faster than any human can review it.

The timing is pointed. GeekWire notes the launch landed two days before GitHub Universe, the developer conference his old company throws every year. Microsoft, which bought GitHub for $7.5 billion in 2018, has since folded it into its CoreAI division.

The headline feature is called Trails, and it is a direct shot at the pull request. In a launch post on Entire's blog, Dohmke argues the classic review timeline has been buried under walls of text from coding agents and review agents talking to each other.

"The pull request has become an audit log that only the agent reads." Thomas Dohmke, CEO of Entire

His fix is a dashboard. Entire describes it as a heads-up display like an airline pilot's, with custom evals that review agents score on every push. Each agent, running Claude Code or Codex in a sandbox, returns a score and a rationale. Entire says it runs Security, Slop and Human Review Required evals on its own repos. If the slop score goes orange, you tell your coding agent to keep fixing and pushing until it turns green.

Here is the part that will make engineering managers twitch. According to Entire's announcement, once every eval is satisfied, developers can merge the code "without needing to look at the code itself." In the same release, Dohmke says the goal is to let developers "confidently merge without reviewing every line in the diff."

Nobody is forced to fly blind. Per-repo Gates can demand human approval or passing CI before anything merges. But the philosophy is clear. The agents grade each other, and the human watches the scoreboard.

Speaking at a Madrona event in Seattle last month, Dohmke said "Code review was always a bottleneck" even before agents arrived. His verdict on today is blunter.

"And now that bottleneck is 10 times bigger." Thomas Dohmke, via GeekWire

The rest is plumbing. Entire claims pushes up to 89 times faster than GitHub, per its own benchmarks. Developers can host private repos in the US, EU, India and Australia, or keep mirroring from GitHub. A feature called Continuous Memory syncs agent sessions into the repo, and Entire says its code map cut token use by up to 71% in its own testing. Buildkite and Depot are on board as CI partners for teams leaving GitHub Actions. Public repos and self-hosting are still on the roadmap.

The money is real. Entire raised a $60 million seed round in February, led by Felicis, with Madrona, Basis Set Ventures, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang and Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan joining, according to GeekWire. So did M12, Microsoft's venture arm. That means GitHub's parent company holds a stake in the startup now gunning for GitHub. The company says it has grown to 50 people, fully remote.

A real pain point, a big leap of faith

Dohmke is not inventing the problem. GitHub has suffered several major outages in recent months, including one in August that lasted nearly eight hours, and says developers and agents made 7.38 billion commits on the platform in September alone. That same AI-writes-everything trend showed up when Anthropic's IPO filing claimed Claude now writes over 90% of its own code.

The harder question is trust. Letting AI write the code is one leap. Letting a jury of AI reviewers decide it is safe to ship, with no human reading the diff, is a much bigger one. Entire's pitch rests on the idea that repeated agent loops and stable scores catch what a single pass misses. That is a claim, not a proven result, and the speed and token numbers are all Entire's own.

Still, the man who ran GitHub is betting that the pull request, the ritual at the heart of modern software, has outlived its usefulness. If developers agree, his old company has a problem.