--- title: "What’s gone wrong at GitHub?" url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-gone-wrong-at-github--5f7pmzqel source_url: https://leaddev.com/software-quality/whats-gone-wrong-at-github type: article source: "LeadDev" published: 2026-05-07T11:32:28.346Z updated: 2026-05-07T11:32:55.555Z tags: ["github", "github-actions", "agentic-ai"] reading_time: 9 upvotes: 211 comments: 19 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What’s gone wrong at GitHub? **[LeadDev](https://daily.dev/sources/leaddev)** · 9 min read · 211 upvotes · 19 comments ## Summary GitHub's reliability has deteriorated sharply, with 257 incidents tracked between May 2025 and April 2026, including 48 major outages. GitHub Actions alone suffered 57 outages in that period. The root cause, per GitHub's CTO, is the explosive growth of agentic AI workflows demanding 30x the platform's designed capacity. High-profile users like Mitchell Hashimoto (Ghostty) and the Zig project have migrated away. Compounding the scaling crisis are engineering failures like an incomplete feature flag that silently reverted thousands of merged pull requests. Microsoft's absorption of GitHub into its CoreAI org and commercial pressure around Copilot are seen as contributing factors. GitHub has declared an 'availability first' mandate, but community patience is running thin as comparable platforms like GitLab and npm handle the same AI-driven growth without comparable disruptions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@petermrozek** · 28 upvotes > Coincidently, GH reliability problems (in mass media coverage at least) started around the same time they announced going all in on AI and Microsoft started bragging how much code does AI pump out for them internally. First was Nadella's announcement of AI, and after that the amount of articles about GH outages started rising. > > But I won't pin this on AI as is, though. The problem is deeper and it's related to one thing actually: Microsoft acquiring GH. Don't believe me? Look... **@webkmsyed** · 11 upvotes > Everything! Because they choose to train their models by using enterprises codes and research. And absolutely no one like this. **@seyoungcho** · 4 upvotes > AI's productivity enhancements are causing these kind of side effects. **@baz14** · 3 upvotes > What benefit did Microsoft bring? VS Code, TypeScript. And its free 😉 > > History shows that everything Microsoft buys becomes obsolete or shuts down. After acquiring Skype and GitHub, it was clear they would be destroyed too. The last straw for GitHub was the renewal of paid services. > > Microsoft's problem is its lack of understanding of user needs. It's all about financial gain. This is the problem with all proprietary software **@pglombardo** · 2 upvotes > This is standard operating procedure for Microsoft. --- Tags: [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#github-actions](https://daily.dev/tags/github-actions), [#agentic-ai](https://daily.dev/tags/agentic-ai) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-s-gone-wrong-at-github--5f7pmzqel)