GitHub's plan for Agents — Kyle Daigle, GitHub

kept by eddie jun 03

GitHub COO Kyle Daigle discusses how AI agents caused platform activity to surge 1400% in 2026, straining infrastructure and forcing GitHub to rethink open-source social contracts and reliability.

Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
Using Git as a package manager backend causes performance and scaling problems as ecosystems grow, leading to workarounds like proxies and sparse checkouts.
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Package managers keep using git as a database, it never works out
Package managers that use git as a database for registry data inevitably hit scaling limits, forcing migrations to HTTP-based or CDN-backed solutions.
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GitHub - microsoft/apm: Agent Package Manager
Microsoft's APM is an open-source dependency manager for AI agents that lets teams declare agent configurations in a manifest file and reproduce them across tools like Copilot, Claude, and Cursor.
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Microsoft’s quiet Claude Code retreat and the real cost of enterprise AI
Microsoft is canceling Claude Code licenses for thousands of employees due to unsustainable token costs, signaling that enterprise AI coding's unit economics don't work at current prices.
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