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> The main driver is a rapid change in how software is being built. Since the second half of December 2025, agentic development workflows have accelerated sharply.

GitHub instability has started way before that. I understand it’s too much to ask of a trillion-dollar corporation to consider the impact of their own actions, but perhaps they should’ve thought of that before forcing LLM development down everyone’s throats.

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While they contributed, they were still following the market trend anyway. If they weren't letting folks use it directly, other companies would have (and are).

> they were still following the market trend anyway.

They started the trend with Copilot.

> If they weren't letting folks use it directly

There is a chasm of difference between “letting you use it” and “forcing it down your throat”. Microsoft is doing the latter, not the former. Copilot is annoyingly present by default at every step on GitHub.

They should have just called it Clippy and revived the animated avatar.

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