Git is unprepared for the AI coding tsunami

Last month, Mitchell Hashimoto, HashiCorp co-founder, publicly declared that he was moving his popular open source Ghostty terminal emulator project from GitHub. GitHub runs the world’s largest service built on the Git distributed version control system, created by Linus Torvalds.

Once an enthusiastic user, Hashimoto grew disillusioned with service disruptions, and increasingly slow pull requests. “This is no longer a place for serious work if it just blocks you out for hours per day, every day,” he wrote.

Hashimoto was quick to defend Git itself: “The issue isn't Git, it's the infrastructure we rely on around it: issues, PRs, Actions, etc.”

Many have blamed GitHub’s performance on Microsoft, which acquired the company in 2018. But to be fair, GitHub itself has been experiencing heavier-than-expected traffic thanks to a proliferation of AI-generated pull requests.

In 2025, GitHub saw a 206 percent year-over-year growth in AI-generated projects measured ...