I think LMMs have made it impossible for unlimited free repos for everyone to work.
After a week ago [0] a week before that [1] and again a few days before that [2] with it is no wonder that each time GitHub falls over, confidence in the platform is rapidly going away.
Sounds like it is once again a great time to self host, as predicted 6 years ago. [3]
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199446
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040940
[1] https://www.techtimes.com/articles/318481/20260616/githubs-a...
Even outside of the reliability issues thanks to the AI coding agents, that money is not going to GitHub. It is going to the model creators.
GitHub failed to capture any of that and is even shutting down GitHub Spark. [0] (Lovable competitor) and is also shutting down GitHub Models (Huggingface competitor). [1]
Both products have been a total failure and even if it was available it would have to shut down away to save the platform from further degradation.
[0] https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-04-upcoming-deprecatio...
[1] https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-github-models-is-no...
325% is just 3.25x. None of these numbers are impossible to scale to.
Do you think these outages are happening because servers are just all too busy?
Just scale it up, you have Azure. Come on. The problem isn't the scale, it is the poor software engineering.