# Why devs turn to Buildkite in the AI era > Source: > Published: 2026-07-14 22:50:30+00:00 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 [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) __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 [project off GitHub and would probably use](https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty?ref=thestack.technology) __Ghostty terminal__[(which he called “awesome”) for CI/CD, there was](https://buildkite.com/home/?ref=thestack.technology) __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) __an unusual outpouring of enthusiasm__## Dynamic and developer centric Buildkite 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. ## Get the full story: Subscribe for free Join peers managing over $100 billion in annual IT spend and subscribe to unlock full access to The Stack’s analysis and events. [Subscribe now](https://www.thestack.technology/membership/) Already a member? [Sign in](https://www.thestack.technology/signin/)