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No, it's not like "act," because it uses the standard Github runner, the difference is that the control plane is an emulation of api.github.com, because of this we can do all kinds of nice things:
Caching in ~0 ms. Pause on failure, so you can let your AI agent fix it and retry without pushing.
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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!
Why do they go down so often? Is it true that the reason is that they've incorporated too much AI without human review?
When is it up?
Or maybe it's before the GitHub internal devs are online and deploying changes.
Wasn’t my fault this time! I haven’t started work yet. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237377
... You're off the hook this time./s
Incredible how reliable the heuristic of "something seems off - probably github being down" has gotten these days
- GitHub
- Hiring budgets
- RAM (/personal computing in general)
- Electricity
- Media/Content
- Truth
Whilst you're waiting for it to come back, try out AGENT-CI (which is a project I built.), which runs GitHub Actions on your machine: https://agent-ci.dev . (Open source, etc.) No, it's not like "act," because it uses the standard Github runner, the difference is that the control plane is an emulation of api.github.com, because of this we can do all kinds of nice things: Caching in ~0 ms. Pause on failure, so you can…
Is what it boils down to.
> codex "Fix this pipeline, use `act` to verify your changes"
Hey at least Copilot AI Model Providers have 100% uptime, so there's that