AI Strains GitHub Limits Lovable.dev faced an 8-hour outage when GitHub unexpectedly blocked new repository creation. This disruption halted automatic repository generation for Lovable users, particularly affecting US-based developers during critical hours. The issue arose after GitHub implemented stricter rate limits, reducing Lovable’s ability to create repositories every 2 seconds—a process that previously operated smoothly. Cross-timezone collaboration between Lovable’s European team and GitHub’s US-based support helped resolve the problem, but the incident highlights the growing stress AI-driven workflows place on traditional platforms. As AI agents gain prominence, they automate tasks like repository creation at speeds platforms like GitHub weren’t originally designed to handle. This trend, paired with an expanding non-engineer user base, is pushing systems toward a 10x load increase by 2025. Platforms must now anticipate AI-driven exponential growth, sudden traffic spikes, and new user demands. This outage serves as a wake-up call for the industry. Adapting tools to AI-augmented workflows isn’t optional—it’s necessary to meet the demands of the future. Are platforms ready to handle the stress AI will bring? #lovable #ai #coding #coder #github #down #outage #news #2025 #agent #agentic #LLM #product #productmanager #productmanagement #startup #business #openai #microsoft #google #gemini #anthropic #claude #llama #meta #nvidia #career #careeradvice #mentor #mentorship #mentortiktok #mentortok #careertok #job #jobadvice #future #2024 #story #dev #coding #code #engineering #engineer #sales #cs #marketing #agent #work #workflow #smart #thinking #strategy #cool #real #jobtips #hack #hacks #tip #tips #tech #techtok #techtiktok #openaidevday #aiupdates #techtrends #voiceAI #developerlife

Lovable has been one of my favorite tools for building with AI, and they had a major outage today. They were down for about eight hours, and it was not because of Lovable. It was because they rely on GitHub to handle all of the code repositories that their users use for projects, and GitHub suddenly stopped allowing them to create new repositories. And they said they had previously checked with GitHub to make sure the extraordinary rate at which they were creating GitHub repositories was okay. It was every two seconds, by the way. These guys are growing so fast. And GitHub claimed it was fine, but then GitHub staff were off over the holidays. Something that no one will talk about happened, and they began to be rate limited and then shut down for violating GitHub's terms of service. And again, GitHub won't really admit what happened here, but to me, it looks a lot like GitHub said everything is fine, and they didn't plan for the growth that Lovable was experiencing. And they came back after the holidays and were like, oh, wow, this is bad. And so Lovable had to work across time zones. They're a European startup. They had to work across time zones to get GitHub going in the US and talk to their support people. And in the meantime, they had to try and figure out what to do with people who were still signing up and wanting to build. And so they started to try and make a workaround, and that was rate limited by GitHub. And so this whole thing has been a complete nightmare for Lovable. They're finally back as of the last couple of hours. But if you were trying to create a project overnight in the US or early this morning, you kind of couldn't. And Lovable has been useful because they're a full stack application. Like you can go all the way to the back end, you can put everything into GitHub automatically. It's just it's really clean. And it understands what you're asking for really, really effectively. And so I think this kind of problem is going to get worse. At the end of the day, the reason why this is happening is fundamentally because GitHub was built for engineers. And GitHub has now got a lot of people who are non-engineers who are effectively committing code. And I want you to imagine that that problem gets 10 times worse this year. Because it's not just non-engineers committing code, it's non-engineers working with agents to commit code. And agents are very, very fast. And so you have multiplying exponential curves driving more and more usage of traditional repositories like GitHub that just aren't used to working at the speed of agents or not used to working with the entire population of tech-interested people. And I think that's a warning for anyone in tech. If you are building systems and you are not expecting them to suddenly take lots of additional load, well you probably should be. Because at the end of the day, if you are in a space where people may suddenly become interested in building with you because a new technical capability has been unlocked by AI, well, you should be ready for a huge traffic influx. That's just kind of what 2025 is going to be about. Lovable was down. They're back up. I'm happy. I hope you're happy. But I do expect more of these outages, especially as we get agent-driven traffic heading into 2025. Cheers.