Availability has dropped to one nine (~90% – !!), partly due to not being able to handle increased traffic from AI coding agents. There’s also no CEO and an apparent lack of direction.
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Here's a 2-3 sentence summary of the article: GitHub is struggling to maintain its reliability, experiencing issues such as infra overload and database saturation, which has led to significant downtime and degradation in service. A new startup, Pierre Computer, has developed an "AI-native" solution that scales significantly beyond GitHub, supporting over 9 million new repositories in the last 30 days. GitHub's lack of focus, no CEO, and entanglement with Microsoft's internal politics may be contributing to its struggles, leading some to question whether it is still the best choice for AI-native development.
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