Comment by buyucu 2 days ago Expect Github to get worse. Much worse. 12 comments buyucu Reply bithive123 2 days ago That didn't take long. There appears to be some kind of outage now, I'm seeing unicorns all over the place. I even got a 403 from githubstatus.com. Rochus 2 days ago Why? buyucu 2 days ago Microsoft customer experience is usually horrible. beefnugs 2 days ago What more damage can they do besides train AI on all code without consent? Oh wait i guess fisting ads into other peoples code somehow... benoau 2 days ago One tried-and-true classic is to delete old stuff, and GitHub has a lot of old stuff... in a couple years someone will calculate an amount they can save. aruggirello 2 days ago Who knows? Deprecate manual code writing someday? 'You're trying to commit some code, sir, but Microsoft Defender©, Git Edition™ has determined it wasn't generated by any of our tools, as reported by telemetry, so changes have been blocked for your own convenience, safety and ultimately, wellbeing. Starting september, 2029 we're only accepting commands from Microsoft products such as Visual Studio Autocode©, Cortana AGI Edition™ and Microsoft Office 2028 Clippy©. Please ask Microsoft James Bond® to take action and he'll solve the issue for you [Charges may apply]. We're also deprecating git push, pull, etc. since Microsoft Tools are so much more secure, optimized and convenient that nobody wants to use those ancient commands anymore.' bn-l 2 days ago It’s Microsoft. Look how much they’ve mismanaged their current assets. dceddia 2 days ago Today we can still anonymously clone repos. ksherlock 2 days ago They could spam you with low-quality AI (but I repeat myself) PRs. Maybe add some vaguely plausible but utterly incorrect bug reports as well.Look at the some of the AI slop curl deals with -- https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-s... -- and imagine your issues list filled with that. mbreese 2 days ago I’m envisioning VSCode Vibe Server 2026 edition. SideburnsOfDoom 2 days ago It's called "CoPilot Agent Mode"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/copilot-a... SideburnsOfDoom 2 days ago > What more damage can they do besides train AI on all codeThat's GitHub code -> AI.The damage will be AI code -> GitHubCoPilot already gives (bad) code reviews on GitHub PRs.
bithive123 2 days ago That didn't take long. There appears to be some kind of outage now, I'm seeing unicorns all over the place. I even got a 403 from githubstatus.com.
beefnugs 2 days ago What more damage can they do besides train AI on all code without consent? Oh wait i guess fisting ads into other peoples code somehow... benoau 2 days ago One tried-and-true classic is to delete old stuff, and GitHub has a lot of old stuff... in a couple years someone will calculate an amount they can save. aruggirello 2 days ago Who knows? Deprecate manual code writing someday? 'You're trying to commit some code, sir, but Microsoft Defender©, Git Edition™ has determined it wasn't generated by any of our tools, as reported by telemetry, so changes have been blocked for your own convenience, safety and ultimately, wellbeing. Starting september, 2029 we're only accepting commands from Microsoft products such as Visual Studio Autocode©, Cortana AGI Edition™ and Microsoft Office 2028 Clippy©. Please ask Microsoft James Bond® to take action and he'll solve the issue for you [Charges may apply]. We're also deprecating git push, pull, etc. since Microsoft Tools are so much more secure, optimized and convenient that nobody wants to use those ancient commands anymore.' bn-l 2 days ago It’s Microsoft. Look how much they’ve mismanaged their current assets. dceddia 2 days ago Today we can still anonymously clone repos. ksherlock 2 days ago They could spam you with low-quality AI (but I repeat myself) PRs. Maybe add some vaguely plausible but utterly incorrect bug reports as well.Look at the some of the AI slop curl deals with -- https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-s... -- and imagine your issues list filled with that. mbreese 2 days ago I’m envisioning VSCode Vibe Server 2026 edition. SideburnsOfDoom 2 days ago It's called "CoPilot Agent Mode"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/copilot-a... SideburnsOfDoom 2 days ago > What more damage can they do besides train AI on all codeThat's GitHub code -> AI.The damage will be AI code -> GitHubCoPilot already gives (bad) code reviews on GitHub PRs.
benoau 2 days ago One tried-and-true classic is to delete old stuff, and GitHub has a lot of old stuff... in a couple years someone will calculate an amount they can save.
aruggirello 2 days ago Who knows? Deprecate manual code writing someday? 'You're trying to commit some code, sir, but Microsoft Defender©, Git Edition™ has determined it wasn't generated by any of our tools, as reported by telemetry, so changes have been blocked for your own convenience, safety and ultimately, wellbeing. Starting september, 2029 we're only accepting commands from Microsoft products such as Visual Studio Autocode©, Cortana AGI Edition™ and Microsoft Office 2028 Clippy©. Please ask Microsoft James Bond® to take action and he'll solve the issue for you [Charges may apply]. We're also deprecating git push, pull, etc. since Microsoft Tools are so much more secure, optimized and convenient that nobody wants to use those ancient commands anymore.'
ksherlock 2 days ago They could spam you with low-quality AI (but I repeat myself) PRs. Maybe add some vaguely plausible but utterly incorrect bug reports as well.Look at the some of the AI slop curl deals with -- https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-s... -- and imagine your issues list filled with that.
mbreese 2 days ago I’m envisioning VSCode Vibe Server 2026 edition. SideburnsOfDoom 2 days ago It's called "CoPilot Agent Mode"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/copilot-a...
SideburnsOfDoom 2 days ago It's called "CoPilot Agent Mode"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/copilot-a...
SideburnsOfDoom 2 days ago > What more damage can they do besides train AI on all codeThat's GitHub code -> AI.The damage will be AI code -> GitHubCoPilot already gives (bad) code reviews on GitHub PRs.
That didn't take long. There appears to be some kind of outage now, I'm seeing unicorns all over the place. I even got a 403 from githubstatus.com.
Why?
Microsoft customer experience is usually horrible.
What more damage can they do besides train AI on all code without consent? Oh wait i guess fisting ads into other peoples code somehow...
One tried-and-true classic is to delete old stuff, and GitHub has a lot of old stuff... in a couple years someone will calculate an amount they can save.
Who knows? Deprecate manual code writing someday? 'You're trying to commit some code, sir, but Microsoft Defender©, Git Edition™ has determined it wasn't generated by any of our tools, as reported by telemetry, so changes have been blocked for your own convenience, safety and ultimately, wellbeing. Starting september, 2029 we're only accepting commands from Microsoft products such as Visual Studio Autocode©, Cortana AGI Edition™ and Microsoft Office 2028 Clippy©. Please ask Microsoft James Bond® to take action and he'll solve the issue for you [Charges may apply]. We're also deprecating git push, pull, etc. since Microsoft Tools are so much more secure, optimized and convenient that nobody wants to use those ancient commands anymore.'
It’s Microsoft. Look how much they’ve mismanaged their current assets.
Today we can still anonymously clone repos.
They could spam you with low-quality AI (but I repeat myself) PRs. Maybe add some vaguely plausible but utterly incorrect bug reports as well.
Look at the some of the AI slop curl deals with -- https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-s... -- and imagine your issues list filled with that.
I’m envisioning VSCode Vibe Server 2026 edition.
It's called "CoPilot Agent Mode"
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/copilot-a...
> What more damage can they do besides train AI on all code
That's GitHub code -> AI.
The damage will be AI code -> GitHub
CoPilot already gives (bad) code reviews on GitHub PRs.