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Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? by remus on Monday August 17, 2026 @12:02PM (#49333175)
> Sure, but how is OpenAI, and Claude handling the increased usage?

By spending tens of billions in investor cash. It is not clear what a sustainable business model looks like for these companies at the moment.

> They are handling it a lot better than Github.

Are they? Anthropic has fairly frequent issues.

There's high growth and then there's demand increasing 10x in a year. For a mature business like github that's a massive, and I can't think of many big businesses who would be able to scale smoothly to accommodate that kind of demand.

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Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? by mixmastamyk on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @08:12PM (#49354801)
Yes, OAI is losing tens of billions, Anthro is losing billions, and MS is cashflow positive and rewarded for that by Wall St, according to recent earnings reports.
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