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is it me or ever since AI coding became the norm, there have been way more outages with otherwise reliable services? I get downtime on Supabase every few weeks
by spaceman_2020 5mo ago
is it me or ever since AI coding became the norm, there have been way more outages with otherwise reliable services?
I get downtime on Supabase every few weeks. Even Cloudflare. And now Github
- julianlam 5mo agoNot just you, but uncertain whether it's due to unreviewed slop going to production, or increased demand due to slop generation.
- hansmayer 5mo agoNo, it's not just you. It is fairly obvious what's happening - the same old Entshittificators now have a great tool to up the speed of entshitification by 100x - thus these crappy outages every other day.
- throwatdem12311 5mo ago> is it me or No, of course not.
- sedimannapoleon 5mo ago[dead]
- chris_money202 5mo agoYes, because that caused the usage of the services to skyrocket, GitHub runs on Azure and Azure is experiencing capacity strain due to AI, so GitHub's services are struggling to auto-scale
- voncheese 5mo agoPer a report that came out the other day, the GitHub move to Azure has been slowed down (i.e. I don't think it's done). But maybe you have newer/better info than me
- skywhopper 5mo agoGitHub’s data architecture (lots and lots of projects in a hierarchical distribution with immutable, highly transaction-based data elements) ought to be easily shardable to allow for massive scale-out. Especially a decade after acquisition by Microsoft. Even a major increase in activity (which was surely predicted internally years ago, given the marketing around AI) should be easily handled by a company with their resources. These repeated failures are indicative of massive mismanagement and misinvestment.
- chris_money202 5mo agoMicrosoft has been letting GitHub operate independently since up to very recently. Seems to imply the problems could be systemically GitHub’s and Microsoft is now stepping in and correcting the ship.
- csomar 5mo agoNo but everyone is pretending that everything is fine. Actually, no, no one is pretending anything. No one cares, really.
- sharts 5mo agoCorrect. There’s no incentive to be careful anymore when you can just prompt an LLM to fix it
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- tom1337 5mo agoThey are definitely more outages but the question is if these outages are due to the providers using LLMs to build there products and are therefore not delivering the quality they did before or have LLMs enabled a completely new user base to create projects which they deploy in the free tiers of named providers and they simply cannot keep up with the growth and the new influx of free users is skewing their mixed calculations (free vs paid) so heavily that they cannot scale without losing money. I'd probably say it's a mix of both.
- maccard 5mo agoGitHub’s instability started when they announced they were wholesale migrating to azure. They’ve been struggling with uptime since before the enormous surge in agentic coding they’re seeing. I don’t doubt that AI has massively increased their load, but u think this is more suspect than that.
- dools 5mo agoI think they’re referring to services using AI for coding and shipping bugs more often as a result.
- mhitza 5mo agoEnterprise software and support services have consideraby (in my personal experience) degraded over the last year. Less care on process, or quality, more focus on "just ship". I've also seen and heard from peers this happening in multiple smaller outsorcing companies.