“I think there was a a tweet a couple of months ago from GitHub that basically said like their traffic had like two or three or 4x from what already was an extremely high load. And pretty much all of that was attributed to AI agents, right?”

Dicken recalls, secondhand, a GitHub post about traffic multiplying over an already high load because of AI agents, as an example of agents overloading shared infrastructure. His mitigation is to tag traffic by source and give each segment a resource budget, so a surge from one source degrades gracefully instead of taking the system down. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.