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This is a platform in chronic decline. After a week ago [0] a week before that [1] and again a few days before that [2] with it is no wonder that each time Git

by rvz 2mo ago

This is a platform in chronic decline. After a week ago [0] a week before that [1] and again a few days before that [2] with it is no wonder that each time GitHub falls over, confidence in the platform is rapidly going away. Sounds like it is once again a great time to self host, as predicted 6 years ago. [3] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199446 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199446 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040940 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040940 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973653 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973653 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803

tomatohs 2mo ago
Decline? AI coding agents drove commits up 14× in a year. Pull requests opened by AI coding agents surged from roughly 4 million in September 2025 to more than 17 million in March 2026 — a 325% increase in six months. [1] [1] https://www.techtimes.com/articles/318481/20260616/githubs-ai-agent-crisis-forces-microsoft-tap-aws-outages-break-enterprise-slas.htm https://www.techtimes.com/articles/318481/20260616/githubs-a...
- CBLT 2mo ago
  That's a measure of the costs GitHub incurs to operate, not of its value as a platform.
- rvz 2mo ago
  Yes. Decline. Even outside of the reliability issues thanks to the AI coding agents, that money is not going to GitHub. It is going to the model creators. GitHub failed to capture any of that and is even shutting down GitHub Spark. [0] (Lovable competitor) and is also shutting down GitHub Models (Huggingface competitor). [1] Both products have been a total failure and even if it was available it would have to shut down away to save the platform from further degradation. [0] https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-04-upcoming-deprecation-of-github-spark-on-github-com/ https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-04-upcoming-deprecatio... [1] https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-github-models-is-now-retired/ https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-github-models-is-no...
- therein 2mo ago
  Why are you acting like 14x is 1000x? 325% is just 3.25x. None of these numbers are impossible to scale to. Do you think these outages are happening because servers are just all too busy? Just scale it up, you have Azure. Come on. The problem isn't the scale, it is the poor software engineering.

by rvz 2mo ago

tomatohs 2mo ago

Decline? AI coding agents drove commits up 14× in a year. Pull requests opened by AI coding agents surged from roughly 4 million in September 2025 to more than 17 million in March 2026 — a 325% increase in six months. [1] [1] https://www.techtimes.com/articles/318481/20260616/githubs-ai-agent-crisis-forces-microsoft-tap-aws-outages-break-enterprise-slas.htm https://www.techtimes.com/articles/318481/20260616/githubs-a...

CBLT 2mo ago
That's a measure of the costs GitHub incurs to operate, not of its value as a platform.
rvz 2mo ago
Yes. Decline. Even outside of the reliability issues thanks to the AI coding agents, that money is not going to GitHub. It is going to the model creators. GitHub failed to capture any of that and is even shutting down GitHub Spark. [0] (Lovable competitor) and is also shutting down GitHub Models (Huggingface competitor). [1] Both products have been a total failure and even if it was available it would have to shut down away to save the platform from further degradation. [0] https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-04-upcoming-deprecation-of-github-spark-on-github-com/ https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-04-upcoming-deprecatio... [1] https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-github-models-is-now-retired/ https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-github-models-is-no...
therein 2mo ago
Why are you acting like 14x is 1000x? 325% is just 3.25x. None of these numbers are impossible to scale to. Do you think these outages are happening because servers are just all too busy? Just scale it up, you have Azure. Come on. The problem isn't the scale, it is the poor software engineering.