1055: What the hell is going on with GitHub?

November 11, 2026 · 31 min

Show notes

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