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The Pulse: is GitHub still best for AI-native development?

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GitHub reliability drops due to traffic from AI coding agents, highlighting scaling challenges.

AI/ML blog.pragmaticengineer.com
The Pulse: is GitHub still best for AI-native development?
Summary

GitHub's availability has degraded to one nine (~2.5h downtime daily) as AI agent load, exemplified by Claude Code's 6x growth in 3 months, strains its infrastructure—recent outages stemmed from database saturation and failover configuration errors. Meanwhile, startup Pierre Computer claims its 'AI-native' Code.storage handles >15k repos/minute, far surpassing GitHub's ~230/min. This highlights a potential shift in tooling for AI-driven development.