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Has nothing to do with Microsoft acquisition... AI usage has increased demand and load. More PRs, more Action runners, more of everything firing. GitHub just wa

Has nothing to do with Microsoft acquisition... AI usage has increased demand and load. More PRs, more Action runners, more of everything firing. GitHub just wasn't ready for the scale and are now having issues catching up with it as it continues to increase exponentially.

voncheese 5mo ago
Yeah, that and Microsoft has been slow to move the infrastructure to something that scales better to handle that load. The more surpassing part is that Microsoft hasn't figured out a way to manage/contain the AI-sourced traffic better so it doesn't create all this noisy neighbor problems for non-AI usage/users.
- chris_money202 5mo ago
  Github's core platform doesn't really make that separation, anything a human can leverage on github an AI agent can as well, just faster and with heavier usage. End of day agents and humans are using the same services.
  - voncheese 5mo ago
    Sure, still need to enable access the same info but feels like bucketing the clients into bucket1 = clients that were working just fine before (users and whatever automation they had in place) bucket2 = ai clients that contributed to, if not flat out caused, the scale problems then slowing down/limiting the bucket2 clients while keeping the bucket1 clients rolling as-is, is both doable and keeps existing customers happy while the underlying infra gets scale/perf improvements needed to support ai clients at scale.
lqstuart 5mo ago
MSFT is also forcing its subsidiaries to “lean into AI” so that they can fire people to cover for Satya’s bad investments
semiquaver 5mo ago
This is a convenient lie that GH likes to tell. Growth is nothing like exponential, its at most 300% over several years according to their own public numbers (presented misleadingly on graphs) But a couple of years ago they were crowing about how much work they were doing to prepare for “a billion developers”. If they had actually done that then the actual load from agents should have been no problem.
- chris_money202 5mo ago
  Is this growth in resource usage or growth in revenue? Because those numbers aren't necessarily coupled. I.e most action runners are free
  - semiquaver 5mo ago
    usage
    - chris_money202 5mo ago
      There was an x post in another thread under this post that showed all the standard usage numbers are way up: 14x, 2.1x, etc. And the OP hinted at the usage growth being non-linear for 2026
officialchicken 5mo ago
Are you sure? Seems like they "completed" a migration about the same time all these problems started to become daily. https://www.theverge.com/tech/796119/microsoft-github-azure-migration-move-notepad https://www.theverge.com/tech/796119/microsoft-github-azure-...

voncheese 5mo ago

Yeah, that and Microsoft has been slow to move the infrastructure to something that scales better to handle that load. The more surpassing part is that Microsoft hasn't figured out a way to manage/contain the AI-sourced traffic better so it doesn't create all this noisy neighbor problems for non-AI usage/users.

chris_money202 5mo ago
Github's core platform doesn't really make that separation, anything a human can leverage on github an AI agent can as well, just faster and with heavier usage. End of day agents and humans are using the same services.
- voncheese 5mo ago
  Sure, still need to enable access the same info but feels like bucketing the clients into bucket1 = clients that were working just fine before (users and whatever automation they had in place) bucket2 = ai clients that contributed to, if not flat out caused, the scale problems then slowing down/limiting the bucket2 clients while keeping the bucket1 clients rolling as-is, is both doable and keeps existing customers happy while the underlying infra gets scale/perf improvements needed to support ai clients at scale.

lqstuart 5mo ago

MSFT is also forcing its subsidiaries to “lean into AI” so that they can fire people to cover for Satya’s bad investments

semiquaver 5mo ago

This is a convenient lie that GH likes to tell. Growth is nothing like exponential, its at most 300% over several years according to their own public numbers (presented misleadingly on graphs) But a couple of years ago they were crowing about how much work they were doing to prepare for “a billion developers”. If they had actually done that then the actual load from agents should have been no problem.

chris_money202 5mo ago
Is this growth in resource usage or growth in revenue? Because those numbers aren't necessarily coupled. I.e most action runners are free
- semiquaver 5mo ago
  usage
  - chris_money202 5mo ago
    There was an x post in another thread under this post that showed all the standard usage numbers are way up: 14x, 2.1x, etc. And the OP hinted at the usage growth being non-linear for 2026

officialchicken 5mo ago

Are you sure? Seems like they "completed" a migration about the same time all these problems started to become daily. https://www.theverge.com/tech/796119/microsoft-github-azure-migration-move-notepad https://www.theverge.com/tech/796119/microsoft-github-azure-...