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GitHub capture is real – time to fork the future of open source AI

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I’ve built open source my whole career. I’m not the smartest coder, but I’ve seen one thing clearly: when governments or corporations capture core infrastructure, everyone loses.

Their help is fine — until it isn’t. Mission-critical systems need to be run by communities with ethics, not quarterly earnings targets. Apache proved it could work. AI has nothing close. Hugging Face and GitHub are great, but they’re not enough.

Open source has always been global. Now GitHub is being captured, and it’s time to hit back. Imagine a TSX/SEV stack for source, models, and CI/CD — secure, verifiable, and open. Make it good enough, and people will move. I might just build it.

What would it take for you to switch?

Apart from MS taking over GitHub, most AI agents or automation in CI/CD and governance are either centralized or unverifiable. We can’t prove the agent’s integrity, nor guarantee it hasn’t been tampered with.

Shade agents solve it by:

- Shade Agents are autonomous services that run inside Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), producing cryptographic attestations of every action they take.

- Unlike traditional CI/CD bots or automation scripts, which require blind trust in a hosting provider, Shade Agents give us mathematical proof that the code we audited is the code running in production.

- All agent actions and decisions are recorded on-chain, creating an immutable, verifiable audit trail.

This makes them an ideal fit for our TSX/SEV-inspired vision of an uncapturable, open-source development and deployment platform.

GitHub getting pulled deeper into Microsoft’s AI core — especially after the CEO exit — is a clear sign that centralised platforms will always tilt corporate. A TSX/SEV-style stack would be a massive leap forward: open-source infra that’s verifiable, self-sovereign, and global-first.

What would make me switch? Simple: a toolchain that’s not just open-source in license, but open in governance — built by people who actually use it, not just profit from it.

Switched to GitLab as soon as MS purchased it.

what would it take? cheaper than github, better in every way and faster. now get to work

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