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The Pulse: is GitHub still best for AI-native development?

GitHub's uptime crisis (dropping to ~90%) exposes the gap between AI agent traffic and platform infrastructure limits, while revealing ethical inconsistencies around tool auto-attribution and LLM supply chain vulnerabilities.

Friday, March 27, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: The Pragmatic EngineerBY sys://pipeline

GitHub's reliability has dropped to ~90% (one nine) — partly due to inability to handle surging traffic from AI coding agents — raising questions about whether it remains the go-to platform for AI-native development. Claude Code and GitHub Copilot auto-add themselves as contributors to commits/PRs (free advertising), while Codex and OpenCode deliberately opt out. The issue also covers a major LLM supply chain attack via LiteLLM, Cursor's undisclosed use of an open-source model in Composer 2, and Microsoft's belated effort to reverse the "Microslop" perception of Windows.

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