For any Githubbers reading, my coworker was apparently affected by a brownout window and changed to using a personal access token. He didn't know it at the time

For any Githubbers reading, my coworker was apparently affected by a brownout window and changed to using a personal access token. He didn't know it at the time but I just mentioned the period and it lines up with when had issues with his authentication. Seems like the brownout was a success in our case!