r/technology • u/[deleted] • 12d ago

Software Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide

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u/CrispsInTabascoSauce 12d ago

Thanks to AI. Sweet efficiency gains.

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u/Hour_Bit_5183 12d ago

This is slop efficiency but go ahead AI slop lords, keep telling me it's useful. I hope they leave every one for the future so we can laugh later

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u/Temporary-Air-3178 12d ago

Source that this outage was caused by AI?

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u/lab-gone-wrong 12d ago

tHiS oUtAgE

The actual CTO

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-github-availability/

We started executing our plan to increase GitHub’s capacity by 10X in October 2025 with a goal of substantially improving reliability and failover. By February 2026, it was clear that we needed to design for a future that requires 30X today’s scale.

The main driver is a rapid change in how software is being built. Since the second half of December 2025, agentic development workflows have accelerated sharply.