GitHub × Agent-Speed Demand Keith Pattison

August 17, 2026 · 7h 35m of degraded service

GitHub was
down. Again.

This is what agent-speed demand does to infrastructure nobody sized for it.

the vendor
45degraded-service incidents
January to July 2026
1B→1.4Bcommits, per year to
per month
10x→30xcapacity plan, revised
Oct 2025 to Feb 2026

Meanwhile, inside one small shop

42×
more code shipped than the same stretch of last year.

Pull requests merged across Black Flag repos, Jan 1 to Aug 18: 97 in 2025 → 4,075 in 2026. Agents opened 519 of them this month alone.