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The Pragmatic Engineer: Why AI Load Broke GitHub But Not Other Vendors
Gergely Orosz analyzes why GitHub specifically buckled under AI-generated traffic while other infrastructure vendors didn't, alongside coverage of Anthropic's 'speed run to break developers' goodwill,' significant GitHub Copilot price increases, and Mitchell Hashimoto's analysis of the 'building block economy.' The piece provides original analysis on infrastructure resilience under AI workloads — a growing concern as agentic coding tools generate orders-of-magnitude more API calls than human developers.
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