Microsoft’s GitHub Sees Booming Traffic—and Outages—as AI Agents Flood Platform

Software developers are using AI agents to crank out more lines of code than is humanly possible, with https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-employees-vie-ai-token-legend-status">companies like Meta hosting “tokenmaxxing” contests to see which coders can spin the AI meter the fastest.

That trend is leading to a surge in traffic at Microsoft-owned GitHub, which hosts repositories where companies can upload and edit their source code.

The AI-driven influx is causing a boom in business and straining GitHub’s servers, according to COO Kyle Daigle.