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Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved

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Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved

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Post by petcat »

indianhippie wrote: post #8

This is reaching an unacceptable level of performance. There isn't a week that work isn't interrupted by GH.

AI agents have changed the scalability properties of basically the entire internet.

It used to be that GitHub could rely on a finite number of people interacting with their platform in real human ways in real observable patterns. So I'm assuming that they scale for those patterns, and optimize for the UI and UX hotspots.

But now everyone's got a moltbot running 24/7, sometimes many, and it's completely overloading a lot of services. Especially services like GitHub which are very much agent-centric nowadays.

Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved

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Post by robertclaus »

baderb wrote: post #14

I keep wondering what causing such a bad service from GH lately, is it the overuse of AI generated code? Are they trying to cut costs with the infrastructure?

There was a post from Github a few weeks ago showing commit volume exploded from linear to exponential growth about 6 months ago. I don't know for sure, but I think they weren't ready for the scale out. Whether that means actual scaling issues or cost cutting because of the scale out, who knows.

Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved

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Post by petcat »

cdrnsf wrote: post #19
AlexB138 wrote: post #15

Github has published some incredible usage rate increase numbers, which they ascribe to the rise of agentic coding. At some point, they are going to have to change rate limits, cut free-tier usage, or find some other path to reducing load. It's clear that their infrastructure can't keep up with this significant increase, and it's unlikely that they're going to just absorb the increased costs themselves. Very curious…

They can't really cite the situation as a problem given their hand in creating and continuing it.

The sysadmins didn't make any of those decisions.

Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved

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Post by SpyCoder77 »

Insanity wrote: post #4

At this point, "GH is down" posts are competing with "Newest LLM Hype" for the HN front-page week over week. For my personal project, I've been considering moving everything over to Codeberg. Stability of GH being one reason, but I also like the idea of an alternative that is not strictly tied to a big tech company.

Your name summarizes all the GitHub uptime crap.

Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved

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Post by sailingparrot »

baderb wrote: post #14

I keep wondering what causing such a bad service from GH lately, is it the overuse of AI generated code? Are they trying to cut costs with the infrastructure?

Everyone producing magnitude more code with AI agents. Numbers from GH COO here: https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878
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