🐙GitHub Logs 7.4 Billion Commits in September as AI Agents Flood Platform

Your GitHub Copilot access just got bigger, and so did the outages

GitHub just handed us the scariest traffic chart of the year. The platform logged 7.4 billion code commits in September, five times the same month last year, and the culprit is AI agents writing code nonstop. The load caused a string of outages, and 90-day availability sank to about 84 percent on May 7. That's bad for a service half the industry treats as infrastructure. If you push to GitHub daily, expect flaky CI, slow pushes, and the occasional blank page until the fixes land. GitHub is splitting compute from storage in its architecture, which it says will deliver 35x more throughput. It's also moving to a multi-region deployment on Azure, expected to finish early next year. Enterprise teams should plan around that timeline, not pretend it's already solved. The bigger launch is Copilot Fusion, now generally available. It's a model routing service that evaluates what a task needs and picks how to run it across one or more models. The Fusion Max tier scored within two points of Opus 5.5 Max at half the cost and 40% less time per task. Copilot Projects, Connectors, and Automations are also reaching the Copilot app, and every GitHub Enterprise user gets Copilot access with no extra per-seat purchase. You still pay for the tokens you use, so watch the bill.