GitHub's growth

From GitHub’s blog post, The August 17 outage, and the work ahead: Since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion. Holy shit. That doesn’t look sustainable. And assuming this activity is driven by AI bots rather than growth in paying customers, it’s probably bad news for the bottom line. I guess I echo this guy: I applaud GitHub. However, I think no matter how valiant they are they will not climb out from under this. The scale problem will keep getting worse, and it’s getting worse in a way I don’t think is translating to more money for them. Sooner or later, they’re going to have to charge for things currently free. I’m very curious how this will play out. And I have more sympathy for GitHub with all these outages.