Comment by altern8
5 hours ago
Why do they go down so often? Is it true that the reason is that they've incorporated too much AI without human review?
5 hours ago
Why do they go down so often? Is it true that the reason is that they've incorporated too much AI without human review?
It's (a) they're under massively increased load because everyone's vibing up new projects these days, (b) they've been in a weird frankenstein "on azure but also we have our own control plane" state for years and they're pushing to no longer have that be the case.
I don't think vibecoding at Github has much to do with it.
Ah, yes. A lot more repos, commits, and most importantly huge PRs.
That makes sense. Thank you!
No, it doesn’t. Their competition is not similarly unstable, despite existing in the same world of LLMs. Think critically.
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I started using an agent (Codex) on my repo and it went from a a few dozen clones to thousands (3383 this week). I dunno what the agents are doing to clone the repo so many times -- I'm not running 3000 agents or prompts, maybe 10 or so this week. But if this is typical, a 1000x increase in usage across the board can't be good on the system.
> I dunno what the agents are doing to clone the repo so many times
agentic "ai" is going great
The instability started well before vibecoding, in around 2018-2019, shortly after the Microsoft acquisition.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591928
This gets posted every time GitHub is down. This chart is not accurate. It is based on data scraped from GitHub's status page and that data is missing historical incidents from the pre-Microsoft era.
Yeah, it’s not even consistent with their own incident history. I spot checked it and consistently found incidents with downtime/elevated error rates in months listed as 100.00000% uptime on that chart.
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Microsoft has boasted 30% of their code written by AI.[1] However we could only guess if AI generated code is the issue or something else, or a combination of things.
That being said there was a noticeable trend starting around 2022.[2] That being said they’ve also been doing a big migration to Azure. It’s likely a combination of things.
1: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-a...
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/s/LOMPaSv3wY
GitHub had a blog post about this recently. They reported a significant uptick in volume (repos created, PRs, etc.), which they attribute to AI usage and tooling.
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-...
Do you really believe their competition hasn’t seen the same increase? Because their competition certainly hasn’t seen the same instability issues.
Yes, I truly believe that GitHub is recommended by an LLM orders of magnitude more frequently than any other forge
I’ve interviewed a lot of people and when asking about their git experience they’ve said they use GitHub. To a lot of devs they are the same thing.
This plus in a well-designed system an increase in load might cause new jobs to stop running but shouldn't take down the whole system.
What competition?
I personally trigger github actions approximately 50x more than I did prior to AI-driven developer coding and I'm not alone.
Totally agree. There's days (or even afternoons) where I trigger more actions than I would have done in a month.
Okay so the recent outages are also likely due to increased load due to AI assisted development speeding up workflows.
It could be many things. Microsoft mismanaging stuff. Azure. Vibe-coded Github. So much AI slop being committed it adds an extra burden on the servers, etc.