November 11th, 2026 × #GitHub#AIAgents#DevOps#Git
What the hell is going on with GitHub?
GitHub COO Kyle Daigle (Daglan in the transcript) gets grilled on the downtime, explains why AI agents are breaking everything with 7-8 billion commits a month, and walks through the massive Git infrastructure overhaul. Plus: are pull requests dead, and what the heck is Copilot Fusion?
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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
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