When AI agents outgrow the infrastructure built for humans, who decides what gets priority?
AI coding agents now generate 14x the commits humans produced last year, overwhelming GitHub so badly that Microsoft had to route traffic through rival AWS. As autonomous agents increasingly compete with human developers for the same infrastructure, how should platforms allocate capacity — and what happens to human developers if they’re deprioritized?
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Today’s episode of Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts (June 18, 2026) dug into the stunning fact that Microsoft had to call its biggest cloud rival for help because AI agents overwhelmed GitHub’s infrastructure. The show explored how capacity planning built around human work patterns simply can’t survive agents that never log off, never take weekends, and generate pull requests at hundreds of times human pace. It raises a deeper question about whether our entire digital infrastructure needs to be redesigned from scratch for the agentic era — not just scaled up. Give the episode a listen and let us know: should human developers get guaranteed capacity, or is that just delaying the inevitable?
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