Last week I watched a video of Satya Nadella showing an AI app that he had built. As you can imagine, this was much more informal than your usual scripted keynote demos. What Satya had built was his version of the LLM Council, which actually has been created by Andrej Karpathy originally (remember that “decade of agents” issue I wrote a couple months back?).

One of the fun details revealed in that demo was the GitHub account that Satya used: saztd. I had to take a look at what that user profile reveals about him. Sadly, there are no public repositories and 0 contributions in the last year. Hmm, if Satya really is serious about the AI grind he reportedly is pushing his executives to join, why no trace of public coding activity yet?

Maybe it’s too much to ask the CEO of a nearly $4T company to be actively pushing code out into the world. Anyway, since I now have a GitHub Copilot subscription, I wanted to scout whether Satya would be a suitable candidate for my team — in case the AI bubble pops and he’s forced to look for new challenges. After all: just like me, Satya used to be a CRM blogger back when he still worked in the Dynamics team.

The 16 starred repos of saztd reveal something about the user’s preferences. For example, the experience level that GitHub Copilot speculated this user to have is “possibly someone professionally involved in AI engineering, data engineering, or productizing AI, or a highly engaged hobbyist following cutting‑edge OSS”. That’s not too far-fetched.

He’s not just into AI, though. The one highly interesting exception is how Satya Nadella has starred the repo of Twenty, “The #1 Open-Source CRM”. This startup says they are building a modern alternative to Salesforce. Given how Satya used to be working at MBS when Microsoft’s XRM journey began, it’s possible he’s still got ideas about what a proper CRM system should look like over two decades later. Who knows, perhaps he gave his AI coding agent and LLM council a task to “go look at this modern app and tell me how to update Dynamics into the modern era.”

What has all this got to do with impostors then? While I was exploring what the CEO of Microsoft is doing when he’s not in Teams meetings or working on company strategy with his Copilot, this got me thinking about our similarities. No, not our hairstyles, nor our CEO titles. About what it is we want to do outside our role as professionals.