I’m excited to work with Microsoft once again as the presenting sponsors of the AI Engineer World’s Fair! We’ll streaming live from MS Build today for a special crossover pod with our friends at No Priors and the one and only Satya Nadella. However we did not hold back with this interview - we asked all the burning questions about uptime and Copilot that we know you have in your minds. Lets go!For almost two decades, GitHub has been the home of software, where both open source and closed flow, through commits, pull requests, reviews, actions, etc.Kyle Daigle@kdaigleHappy 🍰 Day, GitHub! I'm celebrating our birthday with the story about how defunkt, co-founder of GitHub, turned me down for a job 18 years ago after their launch... but it all worked out. 🤣
On this day 18 years ago, GitHub was officially launched by defunkt, @mojombo, 12:33 PM · Apr 10, 2026 · 21.9K Views16 Replies · 18 Reposts · 243 LikesThis ecosystem flourished as open-source maintainers and contributors would continue shipping code for the benefit of the community. However as coding agents began to ship mass quantities of code - growing 1400% in 2026, it marked a new era that was both extremely exciting and challenging for GitHub.Kyle Daigle@kdaigleYup, platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.)
