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They say it is at least one order of magnitude[1]; "our plan to increase GitHub’s capacity by 10X in October 2025 .. By February 2026, it was clear that we needed to design for a future that requires 30X today’s scale."

[1] https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-...

Note the lack of concrete numbers on how much they have scaled. Somebody may have just asked an LLM for projections.

Would Microsoft lawyers OK that?

GitHub would have obligations to MS investors to make accurate projections just like Microsoft itself, right?

I don't think it's an issue here. If the investor relations people put it out, it would be. But in this case it is closer to marketing.

https://gitcharts.com shows ~310 million public repos today, vs. 250 million in April 2025 (according to the wayback machine).

Large increase, but nothing existential.

I wouldn't be surprised. Have you not noticed the sheer volume of slop being posted everywhere these days? Almost all of that is hosted on Github. And some of those repos have insane commit frequencies.

If they're suffering the onslaught of ai slop, it's possible.