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Today, we cover:
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Does GitHub still merit “top git platform for AI-native development” status? 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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Should a tool auto-add itself as a contributor to PRs? Claude Code and GitHub Copilot auto-add themselves to commits, which is effectively free advertising. Codex and OpenCode purposely do not.
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Microsoft promises Windows will not be “Microslop.” After years of forced Copilot integrations, Start menu ads, and mandatory Microsoft accounts, the Windows team is promising to undo the self-inflicted damage done to the OS. It’s better late than never, but why did Microsoft allow the “Microslop” perception to stick around so long?
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Industry pulse. Massive LLM supply chain attack via LiteLLM, backlash after Cursor forgets to mention that Composer 2 is based on an open source model, what happens when you stop reviewing AI code, OpenAI kills Sora, and more.
We’re used to highly reliable systems which target four-nines of availability (99.99%, meaning about 52 minutes of downtime per year), and for it to be embarrassing to barely hit three nines (around 9 hours of downtime per year.) And yet, in the past month, GitHub’s reliability is down to one nine!
Here’s data from the third-party, “missing GitHub status page”, which was built after GitHub stopped updating its own status page due to terrible availability. Recently, things have looked poor:
