alt Hacker News> going from 50M of <thing> per day to 2B <thing> per day will break pretty much any system anyone has ever built here
This is likely a pricing failure. Systems breaking due to over-usage is like going to the store and finding that they're sold out. You're much less likely to sell out if you charge more. Meanwhile, GitHub not only didn't raise prices, they cut them at the beginning of the year: https://github.com/resources/insights/2026-pricing-changes-f...
And this is beside them cutting the Pro tier from $7/seat/month to $4/seat/month back in 2020 and not touching the price since: https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/learning-about-github...
Bear in mind as well that the Pro tier includes 3,000 minutes/month and the Enterprise tier ($21/seat/month, and no published minimum seat floors) includes 50,000 minutes/month. $21/50,000 minutes/month for a solopreneur is practically giving away the farm.
GitHub needs to drastically increase pricing, at least for Actions; their current pricing is practically a WTO dumping violation.
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> This is likely a pricing failure.
They wanted direct access to the repositories for other purposes than serving the customer. Such as training data for copilot, and who knows what else.
Pricing low helped ensure access to that data.
I don't see the connection. Pricing may effect their long term prospects, but I don't see any evidence these issues are being caused by a shortage of metered / allocated resources. They should have access to as much Azure compute as necessary.
> This is likely a pricing failure.
Problem is while we have a visceral feel for what the "value" of GitHub is to human users for human usage, I'm not sure we have a feel for what the value of the agentic equivalent is.
IMO it's probably very high on paper if you think through what kind of work is unlocked at agent speeds, provided you have a very capable work-execution fabric.
But since we're anchored to human pricing, whatever they propose will feel expensive.
solopreneurs were fine - they were self-limiting.
slopreneurs are the issue
It makes sense but in a post AI world - what is of value? Not the software itself, but data and network effects. MS needs to move from a world where their proprietary software makes money, to one where they enable a captive network and have data; Github provides both.
So maybe them providing service at literally all costs to themselves is a smart strategy long term.