GitHub's availability has collapsed to roughly 90%, one nine, in the past month. That is not a rounding error. Four nines is the industry standard. Three nines is considered embarrassing. One nine means the platform powering most of the world's code is down for days at a time, and the proximate cause is AI coding agents hammering infrastructure GitHub was not built to handle. The company has no CEO and no clear direction.

The contributor credit debate is a sharper story than it looks. Claude Code and GitHub Copilot automatically add themselves to commits and pull requests. Codex and OpenCode do not. This is a quiet policy war over who owns the audit trail of AI-generated code, and the answer each vendor gives reveals how they think about attribution, liability, and brand placement inside your codebase.

The full piece runs through a confirmed LLM supply chain attack via LiteLLM, Cursor's undisclosed use of an open source model as the base for Composer 2, real consequences from skipping AI code review, and OpenAI shutting down Sora. Read it for the GitHub reliability data pulled from the third-party missing status page, which exists because GitHub stopped maintaining its own.

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