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GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world
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Re: GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world
#52"I think of GitHub as a collaboration tool." Well yes but git itself is the tool at the base of the pyramid you call GitHub and co. It seems you actively want git to look like all the other things you are used to and they are all walled gardens. GitHub takes git and basically turns it back into subversion and co. Instead of all that anarchic "no repo is king" long haired hippie nonsense, you want central control 8) I…
> GitHub takes git and basically turns it back into subversion and co. Instead of all that anarchic "no repo is king" long haired hippie nonsense, you want central control 8) I do too but only within my company, so we use gitea (other git control freak enablement platforms are available).
I don't know how you got to this. GitHub was designed fundamentally for the decentralized world. That's why forking is so easy, it was designed so that everyone can fork a repo and merge between themselves.
That's why GitHub has the vulnerability where if you have a private fork of a public repo, all of your commits are also public (because the internals was designed for an open social coding world)
Re: GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world
#53A lot of words, but essentially says nothing useful. If GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world. Well, show me a hint of what the new world should look like? To me it seems like everyone is frustrated, mostly at how fast things are changing, but not necessary because the existing tools suddenly became trash/irrelevant. A lot of us are still contending with the fact that large amount of code is being produced and…
My personal take is that if you want to scale in engineering you really only have 2 options. 1) you start acting like a senior staff level engineer and you stop caring so much about implementation and start caring about the things that actually matter, the architecture, the performance profile, the scalability, the test coverage, the monitoring, the velocity of development, etc etc. Or 2) you don't scale. LLMs can wr…
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