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Developer flees GitHub over AI data use and reliability concerns

A developer has decided to leave GitHub, citing concerns over the platform's reliability and its integration with Microsoft's AI initiatives. The developer points to a significant number of incidents logged by GitHub and the company's shift to becoming a unit within Microsoft's CoreAI division. Furthermore, the recent change making user interaction data opt-in for AI training by default, coupled with unresolved data privacy risks under US law, has prompted this move to a self-hosted solution. AI

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IMPACT Developer migration from major platforms may signal growing user concern over AI data usage and platform control.

RANK_REASON The article is a personal blog post expressing an opinion and decision based on existing information about GitHub's practices and policies.

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    Why I'm leaving # GitHub source: jorijn.com/en/blog/leaving-git… TL;DR • GitHub logged 257 incidents in May 2025 to April 2026, 48 of them major. The CTO public

    Why I'm leaving # GitHub source: jorijn.com/en/blog/leaving-git… TL;DR • GitHub logged 257 incidents in May 2025 to April 2026, 48 of them major. The CTO publicly apologised and said capacity needs to scale 30x to keep up with AI-driven load. • In August 2025 GitHub stopped havin…