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Comment by maccard

18 hours ago

GitHub’s reliability issues started earlier than the boom in agentic coding they talk about. I have comments on here from 2025 talking about massive outages with actions and issues.

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fooey  18 hours ago

When you're the uncontested market leader, you don't budget operations to be perfectly reliable, you budget to not be too unreliable. All those 9's are expensive after all.

The AI boom caught them napping though, and they're slipping well into the too unreliable category

  • aleph_minus_one  17 hours ago

    > The AI boom caught them napping though

    Microsoft, who invested eyewatering sums into AI, even near to betting the whole company on an AI boom, is surprised about the AI boom?

chocrates  18 hours ago

GitHub uptime is cyclical. It's bad because they won't focus on the core, and then the right users complain and GitHub focuses on core again before it repeats. This is just the latest round exacerbated by vibe coding

  • infamouscow  8 hours ago

    Another commenter replied, but was downvoted by angry employees of Microsoft for a fairly anodyne statement.

    Microsoft management knows this. It's not like there haven't been attempts to solve these core problems. The issue is GitHub was built by exceptional engineers, and none of those people are still around.

    I maintain all these problems began when they migrated off Erlang and egitd. :)