Do major software firms like GitHub have more downtime now
Question asked:
“Major software companies such as GitHub experience more downtime now than they did before the large language model era.”
Summary
Recent analyses covering 2025‑2026 show GitHub’s availability has fallen below its historic 99 % uptime, with dozens of major outages and a sharp increase in downtime linked to AI‑driven development workloads. This represents a clear deterioration compared with the period before large‑language‑model adoption. Similar trends are reported for other major software platforms, indicating they are experiencing more downtime now than in the pre‑LLM era.
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- Microsoft Taps AWS as GitHub Outages Hit 9 [2026]
Between May 2025 and April 2026, GitHub logged 257 outages, including 48 major incidents totaling 112.3 hours of downtime, according to a May 2026 TalonX analysis, and its availability had fallen below 99% by June 2026, according to reporting ...
- Trigger, Not Root Cause: Re-Examining GitHub’s 2024 to 2026 Availability Decline Under Artificial Intelligence-Driven Load
Over two years, the code-hosting platform GitHub suffered a sustained decline in availability that became acute by mid-2026. A widely repeated explanation blames artificial intelligence, in particular AI coding assistants and autonomous agents ...
- GitHub Outages 2025 - 2026: Reliability Analysis and Outage History
Although the quote says "since the second half of December 2025", indications of an increase in AI-coding related traffic were there earlier as stated in the Octoverse 2025 report.
- What’s gone wrong at GitHub? - LeadDev
The proximate cause is the explosion of code resulting from AI-assisted development. “The main driver is a rapid change in how software is being built. Since the second half of December 2025, agentic development workflows have accelerated sharply.
- GitHub's Historic Uptime | Hacker News
Maybe that's just the date when they started tracking uptime using this sytem · I've seen so many times where Company A will complain that their vendors aren't accurate enough about uptime and how Company A notices first that their vendors are down, but then they themselves have a very laggy ...
- GitHub is sinking | Hacker News
How can that explain the terrible uptime for the ~4 years post acquisition before all the AI stuff you’re talking about started · For example, here is a Hacker News story about GitHub being down on July 28th 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12178449
- GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability | Hacker News
We're a good year+ into the use LLMs for all major bits of software that we all rely upon and GitHub here is down to one 9 of uptime. I've been using GitHub for a _long_ time, my first commits there go back to August 2009!, and I honestly don't recall GitHub going down as much as it has in ...
- The Missing GitHub Status Page
GitHub stopped updating its status page with aggregate uptime numbers some time ago — if you use it regularly, you might have a feeling why.
- Trigger, Not Root Cause: Re-Examining GitHub’s 2024 to 2026 Availability Decline Under Artificial Intelligence-Driven Load
Over two years, the code-hosting ... acute by mid-2026. A widely repeated explanation blames artificial intelligence, in particular AI coding assistants and autonomous agents acting on code at machine speed....
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