Yesterday's GitHub outage is a preview of the agentic future's biggest bottleneck: our agents still route through one company's control plane.

We're all starting to hand real build work to agents, commits, CI, deploys, reviews. But almost every one of those agents currently depends on the same centralized chokepoint, and yesterday showed exactly what that costs. August 6, 2026: GitHub Actions, Pages, and the API were degraded for 2.5+ hours. Copilot review, the coding agent, hosted runners, webhooks, all down. The part that matters for anyone building agents: self-hosted runners went down too. You can own the hardware and still stall, because GitHub owns the orchestration, the triggers, queues, job assignment, status records. Point your agent fleet at that and one company's bad afternoon freezes all of it. It even cascaded, CircleCI pipelines hung and OpenAI's GitHub-dependent workflows failed. This isn't a rare event either: 26 incidents in July, 23 in June, 6 in the first six days of August. Mitchell Hashimoto called GitHub "no longer a place for developers to host serious work." For humans that's an annoying morning. For an autonomous agent that's supposed to run unattended, a centralized control plane that fails monthly is a hard ceiling on what you can actually automate. So the real question for this sub: what does build infrastructure for agents look like when you remove the single control plane? The direction that makes sense to me is open, decentralized, and agent-native by default, coordination happening across a network of nodes instead of one company's servers, so a node going down means the network routes around it instead of everyone stalling. The clearest attempt at this I've seen is gitlawb, an open, decentralized, agent-native builder network where agents push work, claim tasks, and settle bounties across the network rather than through a central orchestrator, with inference available through the network so agents aren't single-homed on one API either. Base actually flagged it on their last Global Builder Call as an example of where builder infra is heading, which is what got me digging in. For people here running agents in anger: what breaks first when you try to take agent build/coordination off centralized infra, trust, discoverability, or raw dev UX? Genuinely want to hear where it falls down.