{"slug": "why-devs-turn-to-buildkite-in-the-ai-era", "title": "Why devs turn to Buildkite in the AI era", "summary": "Developers are increasingly turning to Buildkite for CI/CD as GitHub struggles with exponential growth in pull requests and automation driven by AI coding agents. Buildkite, used by Airbnb, PagerDuty, Reddit, Shopify, and Uber, offers a dynamic, developer-centric experience that contrasts with GitHub's architectural limitations.", "body_md": "Long-term GitHub users have grown increasingly frustrated by its struggle to cope with [ exponential growth in pull requests, automation and monorepos](https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-github-availability/?ref=thestack.technology) driven by developers adopting coding agents, which in turn has exposed\n\n[with the scale at which the service now runs.](https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/addressing-githubs-recent-availability-issues-2/?ref=thestack.technology)\n\n__architectural decisions that haven’t kept up__When former HashiCorp co-founder [ Mitchell Hashimoto announced](https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github?ref=thestack.technology) in April he was moving his open source\n\n[project off GitHub and would probably use](https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty?ref=thestack.technology)\n\n__Ghostty terminal__[(which he called “awesome”) for CI/CD, there was](https://buildkite.com/home/?ref=thestack.technology)\n\n__Buildkite__[for an area of devops often seen as slow, complex, fragile and frustrating. Airbnb, PagerDuty, Reddit, Shopify and Uber depend on Buildkite – as do Bazel, Bun, Elastic, Rails and NATS: open source developers seem to love it too.](https://xcancel.com/mitchellh/status/2049240538965278927?ref=thestack.technology)\n\n__an unusual outpouring of enthusiasm__## Dynamic and developer centric\n\nBuildkite started as a personal project; the original founder wanted a developer experience more like Heroku than Jenkins. Much of the original focus was about giving developers more control over software delivery, down to CI/CD pipelines and testing. That didn't stop platform teams at larger organisations like Shopify and PagerDuty from picking up Buildkite, often as an internal standard to replace multiple CI/CD systems chosen by individual teams.\n\n## Get the full story: Subscribe for free\n\nJoin peers managing over $100 billion in annual IT spend and subscribe to unlock full access to The Stack’s analysis and events.\n\n[Subscribe now](https://www.thestack.technology/membership/)\n\nAlready a member? [Sign in](https://www.thestack.technology/signin/)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-devs-turn-to-buildkite-in-the-ai-era", "canonical_source": "https://www.thestack.technology/buildkite-ai-developer-cicd/", "published_at": "2026-07-14 22:50:30+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-14 23:18:16.697135+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["Buildkite", "GitHub", "Airbnb", "PagerDuty", "Reddit", "Shopify", "Uber", "Mitchell Hashimoto"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-devs-turn-to-buildkite-in-the-ai-era", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-devs-turn-to-buildkite-in-the-ai-era.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-devs-turn-to-buildkite-in-the-ai-era.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-devs-turn-to-buildkite-in-the-ai-era.jsonld"}}