Zig project leaves GitHub due to excessive AI

"One of the examples Zig cites is a bug in the safe_sleep.sh script, under certain circumstances used 100 percent of the CPU and would not stop. According to reports by The Register, the original bug report on this issue was opened in April 2025 but was not closed until December 1, 2025, even though the actual fix had already been delivered in August."

"Combined with the lack of intervention options, this led to a CI chain (continuous integration chain) that regularly crashed. The foundation indicates that investing in additional hardware to compensate for these delays was not desirable. Zig prohibits LLMs In addition, the Zig Software Foundation's own policy plays a role. The organization has a strict ban on the use of LLMs and generative AI. GitHub is integrating more and more AI components into its platform, which, according to Zig, leads to undesirable interactions."

Zig's development team is leaving GitHub after ten years and relocating the central repository to Codeberg, a non-profit Git hosting service. The move responds to recurring technical problems with GitHub Actions that caused CI tasks to schedule unpredictably and sometimes hang. A safe_sleep.sh script bug could use 100 percent of the CPU and render runners unusable, and slow issue resolution amplified risk. The Zig Software Foundation enforces a strict ban on LLMs and generative AI, and increasing AI integration on GitHub creates undesirable interactions. The foundation views reliance on GitHub Sponsors as financially risky and is asking donors to move recurring contributions.

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