Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch

csbrooks

> commits were on pace to hit 14 billion in 2026, up from 1 billion in 2025 So AI means 14x the checkins? That's not 14x features completed, but still... wow.

ashishb

I wonder what percentage of pull requests are cascading updates caused by dependabot and multiple code review bots reviewing those PRs. My belief is it is likely 1% or more. And likely coming in as an avalanche.

jf

I helped set up the first meeting between a Microsoft executive and Thomas Preston-Werner. One of the moments that stood out to me was when Robert Youngjohns (the exec) asked Tom what it would take to have GitHub move to Azure. I was surprised that Tom had a response ready, saying that IOPS were really important and that virtual disks weren’t fast enough.

not_kurt_godel

Saving this for the next time someone trots out the "All cloud providers are the same" line

dr_kretyn

If they pull out "Embrace. Extend. Extinguish." on AWS then I'm going to be impressed beyond mad.

citizenpaul

My favorite part of this is that MS is just bending over to take it lest the gods scorn their "free" training data temple.

locusofself

I have to imagine this is very temporary.

pjmlp

So this is an Hotmail moment?

fortran77

Still, it’s mostly text. You’d think it wouldn’t be that much of an issue.

rickette

Easy to criticize this, but I rather see GitHub survive than fail under its own success. So thanks for acting on this MS!

inopinatus

If there’s one thing that surprised me at AWS during my time there - over a decade ago now - that I was not clearly expecting in advance, it was the scale and competence of the units fulfilling the colossal and unceasing growth in capacity demand. This led me to reconsider Amazon as a whole, and I still think of it basically as a logistics firm, with the shop and the public cloud merely a monetisation thereof.

JumpCrisscross

Interesting to see Anthropic go with xAI and Microsoft go with Amazon. (Probably just tea leaves. If you wanted to be extra spicy, you’d note that Jassy just threw Fable under the bus.)

kuschku

What kind of vibecoded website is this? - the worst infinite scroll I've ever seen making it impossible to access the footer - the title tag doesn't seem to work properly (just shows the URL in the tab title, on Chrome and Firefox) - 2007-style keyword stuffing in meta keywords - the entire page is client-side react with a completely empty body? The agency that built it even proudly states on their website that they vibecode everything: https://gradientnoise.com/ EDIT: Turns out, the articles are mostly AI-generated as well? https://blog.ryanmerket.com/how-i-built-runtimewire-a-one-pe... > And this is the gate that lets me sleep: a story only auto-publishes if the editor says PASS, the risk score is comfortably low, a hero image exists, and it has at least one source

amazingman

Nature abhors a monoculture.

alibarber

I was recently looking at a Python project to learn a bit about RTC and just generally hack around and try something out. https://github.com/aiortc/aiortc It was fun and I found the code nice and helpful. I clicked on the PRs to see if there was anything interesting to look at. I started reading one when I just realised I was just reading someone’s Claude talking to GitHub Copilot. That was when I decided that the Dead Internet Theory had already happened.

N_Lens

After a decade and hundreds of billions in spend, Microsoft has finally upgraded from Azure to AWS.

sreekanth850

Soon we can see limits on free github account. I guess that is clean way to end this AI slop fiasco.

aykutseker

GitHub used to get code after someone had thought about it. Agents are starting to use it while they think.