How Microsoft’s GitHub just told everyone that AI agents are ‘behind’ recent outages
GitHub CTO Vlad Fedorov has published a public apology after two major incidents left thousands of repositories and pull requests in broken states. The platform’s April uptime has dropped below 85 percent—far below its 99.9% SLA—driven by a sharp surge in AI agent workflows demanding 30 times current infrastructure capacity. Ghostty developer Mitchell Hashimoto, GitHub’s 1,299th user, has already announced he’s leaving.
