1055: What the hell is going on with GitHub?

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 Requests Dead? Contributing Tokens Instead of Homework 13:16 GitHub Copilot App: Will We Ever Get Sign In with ChatGPT? 14:51 Is Copilot Fusion Just a Model Router? Cascade and Critique Modes 17:30 Can You Use Copilot Fusion in Other Harnesses? 18:31 What’s Going On with npm? Supply Chain Security 20:30 Do We Even Need Dependencies, or Should We Vibe Code Our Own? 22:13 Is npm Still a Focus for GitHub? 23:29 Audience Questions: Novel Code Storage Architectures and the Future of Git 26:05 Making Git Easier for Shipping with Agents 27:54 It’s About the People: Celebrating Open Source at Universe 29:52 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs Sick Picks Kyle: Studio Roem notebook Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads