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Asked what is going on with GitHub's recent downtime, GitHub COO Kyle Daigle blames a surge of agent traffic, comparing his own handful of weekend pushes with what his agents now do.
…I've been at GitHub for 13 years. Yeah. We've never had growth like this ever because, you know, it's not just that like a human, you know, I was talking to someone on the weekend. I might, you know, code and maybe push, I don't know, eight to 10 times, you know, between kids' soccer games.
Yeah.
Now my agents are doing the vast majority of that and likely pushing up, you know, 150 times like this past weekend, getting ready for universe, right? Yeah, yeah. That times 225 million people is enormous. And so we've had to fix the underlying systems, not just for scale, horizontal and vertical scale. We've kind of done that. We've now needed to go. Agents don't act like humans. They break things in ways that we candidly didn't anticipate because the behavior is very, very different. Yeah. You know, and so I think we've done a lot of good investment. Like our uptime has been much better. Like not perfect to be clear. We still have work to do. But we've made some really good work and now we're, you know, talking about changing all of underlying Git infrastructure and what that can give us. So more to come. Like, I appreciate the patient support. And honestly, just like I get…
Two things here. First, can you give us a just like some numbers as to like how much that spike has? Every chart in the last two years has been like that. Yeah. Like how, how much more has it been going up? Yeah.
Yeah. So I mean, like when we were at universe last year, you know, I got on stage and I was like, you know, this year we've got like a billion, a billion commits, you know, and it's going to be a big deal. I think in early March, we were talking about, okay, we're at a billion to two billion a…
hard to like really understand that. Well, that's why we like, so