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Comment by madeofpalk

7 hours ago

Is there anything to point towards Github's (not so) recent issues being related to AI coding?

Github's always had reliability issues. They tend to have these 'seasons' of downtime. It's been like this for years.

Well yes, the CEO of GitHub said "embrace AI or get out:"

https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrac...

Unless you're unemployed ATM, what is happening throughout corporate America is forcing employees to use LLM tools or get fired. It's hard to not see the connection, big tech offerings were already shit before but since all these mandates it's gotten noticeability worse.

You don't get to back away from the LLM damage when you were making the media rounds telling everyone to use these tools. This is a direct result of using these tools: decaying code, rotten services, and putrid responses.

GitHub itself was reorged under the CoreAI division recently, I think.

For the stability issues, I see it more as a potential tenuous link between having to hyper accelerate the Azure moves with a "you have no excuses because AI makes everything easier" sentiment from above, and then the more obvious literal situation of devs maybe vibecoding infra changes.

No evidence of the latter, just the likelihood, given the incentives.