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Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

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Post by logicchains »

tekno45 wrote: post #22
bhouston wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Github is struggling because AI-boosted coding increased the number of commits 14x in the past year, and the pace is still accelerating. Sure, but how is OpenAI, and Claude handling the increased usage? They are handling it a lot better than Github. Just because you have fast growth does not mean you can not handle it. Instead you have to realize that you are entering into a high growth phase and design around that…

OpenAI and Claude don't accept commits and host PRs? How are they the same?

They're undergoing the same kind of load. Almost every AI commit that's putting pressure on GitHub's servers was written on OpenAI and Anthropic's servers.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

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Post by adzuci »

joshdavham wrote: post #9
solfox wrote: post #5

Many microsoft services are down/failing today, including sites hosted on Azure. I'm guessing it's a larger MS outage.

So perhaps we should be asking Azure engineers, not Guthub engineers?

Are they? https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status doesn't support this afaict.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

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Post by [deleted] »

bluerooibos wrote: post #24
tristanj wrote: post #8

Github is struggling because AI-boosted coding increased the number of commits 14x in the past year, and the pace is still accelerating. The site is struggling to keep up. Github's COO confirms it here: https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878 Platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. As of three months ago, it was 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth rema…

> Github is struggling because AI-boosted coding increased the number of commits 14x in the past year, OK so then use the additional revenue to add more resources and employees? What the f*k are they doing over there?

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Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

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Post by dumberquestions »

tekno45 wrote: post #22
bhouston wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Github is struggling because AI-boosted coding increased the number of commits 14x in the past year, and the pace is still accelerating. Sure, but how is OpenAI, and Claude handling the increased usage? They are handling it a lot better than Github. Just because you have fast growth does not mean you can not handle it. Instead you have to realize that you are entering into a high growth phase and design around that…

OpenAI and Claude don't accept commits and host PRs? How are they the same?

They're getting increasing demand for tokens at an accelerating pace.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

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Post by flexagoon »

herpdyderp wrote: post #2

non-helpful answer: the "Microsoft Acquires GitHub" line in this graph answers all questions https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/

Note that most of the downtime in that graph comes from Github Actions, which simply didn't exist before the Microsoft acquisition.

The downtime also starts happening in 2020, which is a while after the acquisition. 2020 was the year many people started learning to code while being stuck at home.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

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Post by SamBam »

bhouston wrote: post #15
tristanj wrote: post #8

Github is struggling because AI-boosted coding increased the number of commits 14x in the past year, and the pace is still accelerating. The site is struggling to keep up. Github's COO confirms it here: https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878 Platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. As of three months ago, it was 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth rema…

> Github is struggling because AI-boosted coding increased the number of commits 14x in the past year, and the pace is still accelerating. Sure, but how is OpenAI, and Claude handling the increased usage? They are handling it a lot better than Github. Just because you have fast growth does not mean you can not handle it. Instead you have to realize that you are entering into a high growth phase and design around that…

OpenAI and Anthropic are spending hundreds of billions of dollars that they may never recoup forcing the building massive new data centers in the face of widespread protest.

You think GitHub ought to match that?

Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

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Post by SoftTalker »

arjie wrote: post #20
tristanj wrote: post #8

Github is struggling because AI-boosted coding increased the number of commits 14x in the past year, and the pace is still accelerating. The site is struggling to keep up. Github's COO confirms it here: https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878 Platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. As of three months ago, it was 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth rema…

The obvious answer is to end free unlimited private repos. Source is no longer a specific thing. GitHub is just a free S3 or Azure provider.

I think this would cut out a lot of the mindless commit activity.

Charge $1/month per repo. If your project isn't worth that, run your own git or use another free forge.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

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Post by jdelsman »

adzuci wrote: post #32
joshdavham wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So perhaps we should be asking Azure engineers, not Guthub engineers?

Are they? https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status doesn't support this afaict.

How sure are we that their status page is accurate? AWS's status page often lags actual issues.
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