As the largest git hosting platform, complaints about GitHub bugs are nothing new for the developer community, but its increased adoption of AI tools has some devs feeling even more uneasy.
“As GitHub Copilot was introduced, I had serious security concerns,” one open source developer Daniel Andrlik tells The Stack.
The Microsoft-owned platform say AI tools have been widely adopted and well received by its 180 million users. According to a GitHub blog, Copilot makes 85% of users more confident in code quality. But the tools have also attracted legal, ethical, and user experience complaints since GitHub Copilot was initially brought onto the platform in 2021.
2025 heard some of the loudest complaints yet, most notably when the foundation behind the coding language Zig migrated its canonical branch entirely off GitHub last year.
“I think the LLM problem is really driving a much bigger movement that people are taking seriously” Drew DeVault, founder of GitHub alternative Sourcehut, tells The Stack.
DeVault suggests the “more obvious and detrimental effects” of AI are pushing people off the platform faster than previous moral arguments about consolidation and big-tech ownership.
