Commits on GitHub have doubled in four months. Verification capacity has not.
The New Stack Arjun Iyer
GitHub’s platform scaled less than demand, culminating in an August 17 outage after a Central US component failed to scale with traffic while commit volume surged.
Why it matters
I have been waiting for agent-generated code to show up in public infrastructure data rather than in vendor benchmarks. In The post Commits on GitHub have doubled in four months. Verification capacity has not. appeared first on The New Stack.
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