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GitHub is on Azure. Azure is notorious for being terrible. There was a post here recently from an ex-Azure engineer explaining all of this in a multi-part series. Edit: Found the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242
Isn't a lot of OpenAI infra also on Azure? They seem to be faring better than GitHub.
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OpenAI and Claude don't accept commits and host PRs? How are they the same?
I am pretty sure OpenAI and Claude actually have a higher hardware cost per request that Microsoft. Github is actually most just a standard REST API app, although with some caching and git specific operations in the background. It is not as hardware intensive as GPU-based inference per quest with huge contexts and low latency. Also Github's feature offering has been incredibly stable for the last 6 years. There isn't…
That's due to the need for ultra-fast memory and inference compute, it's not the same thing.
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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.
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According to that graph, performance drops widely after Microsoft's acquisition before AI enters the scene. If not Microsoft, how else do you explain it, or is the graph somehow misleading?
You're the one making the argument! You need to show causality instead of correlation.
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 repo names all matched other GitHub apps, so my sense is this bot had added 1700 GitHub apps to 1700 repos, with that number rapidly increasing at the upper bound of whatever GitHub's rate limit is.
My systems caught it quickly and auto-booted the bot, but the whole situation is ridiculous.
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…
My sense is that a lot of this activity isn't even legitimate use. As one example: my company has a GitHub app, and last night some bot added my app to 1700 repos. Then the bot immediately started rapid-firing commits which each affected hundreds of files, triggering a deluge of GitHub webhooks to my servers. The repo names all matched other GitHub apps, so my sense is this bot had added 1700 GitHub apps to 1700 repo…
kinda reminds me of it. not my most valuable contribution to forensics, admittedly.
Does the AI ever look back at the shit trail it left behind?
Diffs are no longer diffs, they look like largescale delete and rewrite
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Isn't a lot of OpenAI infra also on Azure? They seem to be faring better than GitHub.
I bet OpenAI has failovers to other data centers. I think they have a variety of data center provides all over the place.
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> 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?
> OK so then use the additional revenue to add more resources and employees? What revenue? I'd assume the people pushing thousands of AI-generated commits are not the people paying for GitHub Enterprise.
I'd assume at least a portion of them are paying for GitHub Pro, and by now at least a small % would have converted to Enterprise.
If not, then they need to fix their operational model - I don't understand people acting like this is some insurmountable challenge given Microsoft reported over $331 billion in total revenue and an operating income exceeding $155 billion in 2026.
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> 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?
What revenue do AI-boosted commits provide? Am I missing something?
If they're really that cash-strapped at GitHub, then are they planning to just continue allowing this to happen and drown, or fix the issues? This has been ongoing for over a year.