1055: What the hell is going on with GitHub?

In this episode

Scott and Wes sit down with GitHub’s Kyle Daigle to ask what the hell is going on with GitHub: the downtime, the agent traffic spike, and the infrastructure overhaul decoupling storage from compute. Plus Copilot Fusion’s cascade and critique modes, npm supply chain security, and whether pull requests are dead. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 00:07 What the Hell Is Going On with GitHub? 01:42 GitHub’s Growth by the Numbers: Billions of Commits a Month 03:36 Brought to you by Sentry! 04:00 GitHub’s Huge Infrastructure Update: Decoupling Storage from Compute 06:41 Moving to Azure and the Busy Monorepo Problem 09:00 Is CI the New Bottleneck? Rethinking Testing for Agents 11:01 Are Pull Reque…