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Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved

#41

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

Things are a lot better in Europe. I stopped working hours before this incident started, and I can't really remember any major work-stopping indicents in the past months. I only remember once trying to do hobby stuff in the evening that was impacted recently.

Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved

#42
The amount of damage Github has done to its brand is something so phenomenal that I think it might be studied in future case studies. Skype and Github were two microsoft products which everyone used until they degraded it. Windows itself can be included in it too now.

Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved

#43

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…

Isn't the data that flows through Github so valuable that they (Microsoft) are happy to eat the cost? I don't have a clear idea how that value can be captured, since it's going to be 90% AI generated code that anyone can scrape (public projects) or can't be used (private projects), so perhaps you're right.

> 90% AI generated code

And it isn't even clear yet if the AI generated code is even particularly valuable since it's legally ambiguous as to whether or not any human ownership can be attributed to it.

The USPTO has declined copyrightability for genai artwork, it's only a matter of time before the same question comes up about code.

Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved

#44
post #39

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…

Github naturally scales horizontally. Usage numbers is the PR reason. Vibecoding insanity in Microsoft is the more plausible actual culprit.

So maybe it's AI that's responsible for both ends. The increased traffic and the lessened product.

Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved

#45

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…

Isn't the data that flows through Github so valuable that they (Microsoft) are happy to eat the cost? I don't have a clear idea how that value can be captured, since it's going to be 90% AI generated code that anyone can scrape (public projects) or can't be used (private projects), so perhaps you're right.

> or can't be used (private projects)

As if they cared about that

Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved

#47
It feels weird (sad?) that I'm starting to get a sixth sense for when Github is going to a service disruption.

About an hour ago, clicking "Resolve Conversation" in a Pull Request failed a few times with an error message that appeared lower on the page (outside the viewport), and which I did not see the first few times. I had to reload the page after every few actions to get the server to register new ones.

I told a colleague, and added "Github might be having an issue with some other service, and it's just bleeding over to PR comments? Maybe it will snowball into a larger outage?"

Re: Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved

#49

I have been writing lots of code lately And I still only have local git repository. I do not like why git doesn't have a built in bug or issue tracker and a kanban board or something. I wished Git and Fossil hybrid should have won. I thought about using fossil many times but it seems codex and claude have deeper integration with git. I don't like installing software which keeps growing into infinite feature Monster.…

You might be interested in radicle: https://radicle.dev/faq#how-does-radicle-handle-issues-pull-...

Radicle supports issues directly as part of the git object database.

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