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GPT Pilot

The first real AI developer

Pythagora-io/gpt-pilot

Maintained by Pythagora-io

GPT Pilot is Pythagora's open-source AI developer that builds apps step by step with a human in the loop. The repo is maintained by Pythagora-io and released under the Functional Source License 1.1 (MIT future license).

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Pros & cons

Each point cites its sources and says what kind of evidence backs it. A second reviewer tried to refute every claim before it was kept.

Pros

  • DocsA historically influential 'AI developer' that builds whole apps step by step with human review, with a detailed public lessons-learned write-up.[1][2]
  • MetadataAbout 33.6k stars, so there is a large body of past issues and forks to learn from.[1]

Cons

  • DocsOfficially unmaintained: the README says the repo is no longer actively maintained and that the 2026 security cleanup is not a resumption of development.[1]
  • DocsSecurity incident: a credential-stealing worm was hidden in the repo from a 2025-08-24 commit until 2026-06-11, and the README tells anyone who ran it in that window to rotate every credential.[1][2]
  • User reportsUnpatched vulnerabilities remain: a path traversal that lets the LLM write outside the workspace, and a requests pin affected by CVE-2024-47081.[1][2]
  • MetadataLicensed under the Functional Source License (FSL-1.1, converting to MIT later), not OSI open source.[1]
  • MetadataNo tagged releases; the last push was June 2026.[1]
Best for
Studying the history of autonomous app-builder agents, not new work.
Watch out for
Do not run old checkouts; if you ever did, rotate credentials as the README instructs.

Assessed Oct 29, 2026 · adversarially reviewedSuggest a correction

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Sources

  1. GitHub repo