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 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.

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