GitHub's Recent Crisis Has a Simple Fix
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An opinion piece argues that GitHub's recent outages and slowdowns stem from a flood of AI agent-generated API calls (PRs, commits, comments) since Claude Opus 4.5's release triggered a surge in agentic coding activity. The author proposes 'intelligent backoff queues' with burst limits and exponential backoff at the organization level to force a deliberate pause between AI code generation and shipping, arguing this would curb 'AI slop', restore human review, and preserve GitHub's role as a trusted repository of software knowledge.
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