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What do you want to see in a next-generation GitHub in the age of AI?
AI coding agents are making it much cheaper to produce code, and that may change the bottleneck in software projects from writing code to evaluating, reviewing, and safely integrating changes.
I’m curious what people here would actually want to see in a next-generation Git repo hosting platform.
What do you want that GitHub, GitLab, Forgejo, SourceHut, etc. do not currently provide?
A few areas I’m wondering about:
* Handling much higher PR volume
* Better maintainer controls
* Machine-readable project policies
* Risk scoring before human review
* AI agents as first-class contributors with owners, permissions, and trust history
* Better ways for projects to say what kinds of changes they actually want
* More open or portable alternatives to GitHub
What would be genuinely useful?
What would be over-engineered, annoying, or harmful?
- 2001zhaozhao 5mo agoGit hosting needs to be completely reimagined with the assumption that LLMs are the ones doing the vast majority of Git contributions, not humans directly.
- nbbaier 5mo agoWhat do you think that reimagining looks like? Genuinely wondering
- jerrygarcia 5mo agoCurious about this as well
- BrianneLee011 5mo agoA next-gen platform should be just be 'GitHub w/a Chatbot." It needs to be a verification engine that treats code as a liability and human attention as the rarest resource in the building.
- Miner49er 5mo agoIsn't that just Gitlab with Duo turned on?
- Ella_Davins 5mo agoAsk HN: Are we misunderstanding AI “hallucinations”?
- Ella_Davins 5mo ago[flagged]
- Bmello11 5mo ago[flagged]
- bjourne 5mo agoOpen fast rest api. Plain html web with no js. NO AI BS! Do it, u profit.
- drzeedigital 5mo ago[flagged]
- helloansh 5mo agoa native support for AGENTS.md would be huge as it's already the standard every AI coding tool reads for project context but right now it lives in the repo but github does nothing with it, but if github surfaced it can be machine readable project policies