Comment by fridder

4 days ago

I think the reliability struggles of Github may have helped with this

I can't help but wonder if the causation is backwards here and the millions of lines of slop had more to do with the Github struggles than the reverse

  • In reality yes, and probably a complex mixture of things. Dedicated time and resources being siphoned off for Llm work, etc

    • I also think starting to migrate to Azure just as their traffic/usage exploded from LLM use (plus I assume merging a bunch of poorly written early-gen LLM code as early adopter dog fooding) was poor planning by Github/Microsoft.