GitHub's reliability hit 86% uptime last month, below one nine, and is getting worse. A data integrity incident followed more outages, with GitHub leadership citing a 3.5x increase in AI-driven service load as the cause. 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. Silent nerfs to Claude Code, unexplained bans of business customers, and confusing price increases are fueling a perception that the company has entered an extraction phase: charging more while delivering less. The piece documents the specific changes and the timeline, which is worth reading if you rely on Claude for production workloads.
The article also covers GitHub Copilot price hikes, explosive early growth at Codex, Google's scramble to compete on coding models, and a reported SpaceX acquisition interest in Cursor. The section on Hashimoto's 'building block economy' argument, that open source components drive adoption but make monetization harder, is the sharpest thinking in the piece and reason alone to read the full version.
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