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Why GitHub feels like it’s dying in the AI era?

We didn’t stop coding. we just stopped exploring. AI quietly replaced one of the most important dev habits and nobody’s really talking about it.

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“GitHub is dying” sounds like one of those takes you see, roll your eyes at, and keep scrolling.

Like yeah, sure. Next you’ll tell me tabs are better than spaces and start a war in the comments.

But here’s the uncomfortable part: something is changing and it’s not subtle.

A few months ago, if I hit a weird bug, my flow was basically muscle memory:

Google → random blog → GitHub issue → Stack Overflow → copy something questionable → pray → ship.

Now?

I just open ChatGPT or let GitHub Copilot autocomplete half my brain, and I’m done before my coffee cools.

No digging through repos.
No reading long issue threads.
No “why does this even work?” moment.

Just… solution acquired.

And I realized something slightly weird:

I hadn’t browsed GitHub in days.