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The Real Story Behind the GitHub Meltdown

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May 18, 2026
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Learn to code - https://www.boot.dev?promo=BOOTSTUBE GitHub keeps going down and seems to be getting more unreliable by the day. But is it really GitHub’s fault? Or is it just the first major casualty of the AI programming slop machine? Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 02:24 - Status pages are not reality 03:04 - Everyone is fragile now 04:45 - Git is not GitHub 07:57 - The clankers are here 09:24 - AI is externalizing its costs 10:48 - Where do developers go? 13:44 - Bots are not interns, but they need supervision like interns 15:03 - Is this the beginning of the slip? 16:00 - Update: two more incidents and Ghostty leaving GitHub 17:03 - Outro Sources: https://www.boot.dev/blog/news/github-keeps-going-down/

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