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🟡 GitHub's AI code buddy hit the wall trying to live up to its own promise. Copilot Chat serving degraded performance—turns out even AI needs a timeout sometimes. The irony of a 'fast code' tool moving at molasses speed is *not* lost on anyone. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Jan 21, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Copilot Chat - Grok Code Fast 1 Outage

// Status page says

Jan 21 , 11:33 UTC Investigating - We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Copilot

🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/qq1gg4klp5vm

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