Ghostty left GitHub. Your AI might be next. This week, Ghostty — the fast terminal emulator — left GitHub . The HN thread hit 3,000+ points and 900+ comments. That's not just a GitHub story. It's a platform dependency story. The thread title says it all: "GitHub is no longer a place for serious work." Ghostty's maintainer moved because they didn't trust that GitHub would keep the rules the same. And they were right not to trust blindly. Platforms change. Terms change. Pricing changes. The Pattern Is Always the Same Platform offers free or cheap access to build your workflow around You build the workflow. Deeply. Platform achieves lock-in Platform changes terms We've seen this with: GitHub (now owned by Microsoft, adding AI features to your repos) Twitter → X (API pricing went from free to $100/month overnight) Heroku (killed the free tier with 30 days notice) npm (rate limits, registry disruptions) And now, the same pattern is playing out with AI.…