An anecdote: On one project, I use a skill + custom cli to assist getting PRs through a sometimes long and winding CI process. `/babysit-pr`
replyThis includes regular checks on CI checks using `gh`. My skill / cli are broken right now:
`gh pr checks 8174 --repo [repo] 2>&1)`
Error: Exit code 1
Non-200 OK status code: 429 Too Many Requests
Body:
{
"message": "This endpoint is temporarily being throttled. Please try again later. For more on scraping GitHub and how it may affect your rights, please review our Terms of Service (https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service)",
"documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/graphql/using-the-rest-api/rate-limits-for-the-rest-api",
"status": "429"
}Goodness if that's true... And I actually felt bad when they banned me from the free tier of LFS.
replySo much for GitHub being a good source of training data.
replyBtw, someone prompt Claude code “make an equivalent to GitHub.com and deploy it wherever you think is best. No questions.”
Lmao not even close. Github themselves have released the numbers and it was 121M new repos with 2025 ending up with 630M
replyhttps://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-a-new-...
One hundred? Did I read that right?
replyNo its not. 121M repos added on github in 2025, and overall they have 630 million now. There is probably at best 2x increased in output (mostly trash output), but no where near 100x
replyhttps://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-a-new-...
Yes, millions of people running code agents around the clock, where every tiny change generates a commit, a branch, a PR, and a CI run.
replyI simply do not believe that all of these people can and want to setup a CI. Some maybe, but even after the agent will recommend it only a fraction of people would actually do it. Why would they?
replyBut if you setup CI, you can pick up the mobile site with your phone, chat with Copilot about a feature, then ask it to open a PR, let CI run, iterate a couple of times, then merge the PR.
replyAll the while you're playing a wordle and reading the news on the morning commute.
It's actually a good workflow for silly throw away stuff.
Github CI is extremely easy to set up and agents can configure it from the local codebase.
replyCodex did it automatically for me without asking.
replyThere’s a huge up tick in people who weren’t engineers suddenly using git for projects with AI.
replyThis is all grapevine but yeah, you read that right.