OpenAI Is Developing an Alternative To GitHub (reuters.com)
- Reference: 0180902078
- News link: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/03/04/0039214/openai-is-developing-an-alternative-to-github
- Source link: https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-is-developing-alternative-microsofts-github-information-reports-2026-03-03/
> Engineers from OpenAI encountered a rise in service disruptions that rendered GitHub unavailable in recent months, which ultimately prompted the decision to develop the new product, the report said. The OpenAI project is in its early stages and likely will not be completed for months, according to The Information. Employees working on it have considered making the code repository available for purchase to OpenAI's customer base.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-is-developing-alternative-microsofts-github-information-reports-2026-03-03/
[2] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-developing-alternative-microsofts-github
But is it vibecoded? (Score:5, Funny)
it's important to know if they are leading by example.
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If they want it to work, they'll vibe code it with Claude.
The reality is that Claude remains the best choice for most (all?) programming work. If anything, ChatGPT is a distant third (after Gemini).
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Yea, I was wondering how far normal people would trust a vibe coded platform with something mission critical
Oh boy! (Score:4, Informative)
What is this, 754th in a line of things nobody asked for and nobody wants? When there are already open-source replacements for GitHub out there anyway?
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Well, my guess is that it's going to be a custom AI-database cross trained on all the opensource code it can lay it's hands on. It's probably intended as a training ground for their AI coder.
SlopHub (Score:5, Funny)
The obvious name.
Trust (Score:4, Interesting)
Gee, why wouldn't I trust Scam Altman with even more of my data?
Just ask ChatGPT what it should be called (Score:3)
I asked ChatGPT what to call a site with the following parameters:
* the content is AI slop code
* distributes content to a second and third-parties
* anyone dumb enough to it is going to get fucked
Top answer: Sloppy Seconds
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Anyone going to fork sloppy seconds?
Re: Just ask ChatGPT what it should be called (Score:2)
Only so I can merge my branch against the owner's wish.
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> Anyone going to fork sloppy seconds?
I suspect a spoon would be the better choice, but by all means take a fork and dig in if you're so inclined.
Claude : hold my beer (Score:1)
How hard can it be for an AI to write a Github like core without all the bloat of GitHub?
Re: Claude : hold my beer (Score:2)
You mean git? It's been done already. Didn't even need AI shockingly. Developers wrote it on stone tablets.
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But git doesn't have a nice screen interface.
An alternative to Github? (Score:5, Informative)
So Gitlab, or Bitbucket, Beanstalk, Launchpad, Sourceforge, ... I'm sure I'm overlooking 70 others.
Re:An alternative to Github? (Score:4, Interesting)
Forgejo/Codeberg would be a major one. You can even host Forgejo yourself to actually own your own code.
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My trillion dollar employer would run an old version of gitlab internally and we could point a few of the AI tools at it if you setup the access tokens for it.
Re: An alternative to Github? (Score:2)
Yeah but this one will have a purple UI with drop shadow cards!
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All I ask is that they keep old repositories around forever. I've seen some repos lost, like PhonebookFS, which could be really useful these days.
PhonebookFS was a FUSE mounted filesystem that had multiple layers. Mount one layer, get a different set of files than another layer. Even then, there was a bit or random sized "chaff" which was not owned by any layer in the PhonebookFS, providing plausible deniability.