GitHub's reliability hit 86% uptime last month, below one nine, and falling. A data integrity incident compounded the outages. GitHub leadership blames a 3.5x increase in AI-driven service load. Mitchell Hashimoto, creator of Ghostty and a prolific open source contributor, has publicly quit GitHub, calling it unfit for professional work.
Anthropic is having a bad month. Claude Code was quietly nerfed. Companies are getting banned from Claude with little explanation. Prices are rising without proportional capability gains. The pattern reads less like growing pains and more like a deliberate shift toward revenue extraction at the expense of the developer trust Anthropic spent years building.
The full article is worth reading for two reasons: it digs into why AI load is breaking GitHub specifically while other vendors absorb similar pressure without the same degradation, and it covers Hashimoto's argument that open source building blocks are the strongest path to adoption but an increasingly difficult foundation for a real business. GitHub Copilot price increases, Codex growth numbers, and a reported SpaceX interest in acquiring Cursor are also covered.
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