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Post by chris_money202 »

theplatman wrote: post #118
chris_money202 wrote: post #106

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GitHub is crashing due to scaling pressure. Something GH is much more equipped to solve long term.

are they? given this has been happening frequently over past year and there's been minimal clear communication on their end on how they plan to address this

Azure is at capacity; GH offers a lot of services for free or heavily discounted. Especially when its public repo. These aren't profit generating for Microsoft, so they are not the priority with the capacity Azure has available. GH is probably struggling with these capacity and budget constraints. They also still have some AWS and non-azure DCs in use.

Once Azure's massive spend is online things will slowly get better.

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by throwaway13337 »

mgfist wrote: post #192
throwaway13337 wrote: post #167

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That used to be a big deal. I don't think it is anymore. One great thing about the rise of AI is that now it's super easy to make and maintain integrations. This is a place where AI coding uniquely shines due to the points being well defined and mostly quite standard. This is going to hurt the monopoly power of software companies. But it'll be great for allowing the proliferation of smaller companies, open source, an…

Creating? Sure. Maintaining? absolutely not.

As someone who has some SaaS products that must connect to other SaaS products, I can tell you that this is somewhere that AI saved me a truck load of time.

A lot of SaaS companies change their API in subtle ways throughout the months probably too rapidly. GraphQL schema changes, splitting apart one api endpoint into 2, changes to authentication method required. A thousand little cuts.

This used to be my biggest time waster. Now it's barely on my radar. Life changing for me. I guess your mileage may vary.

Concurrently, the writing is on the wall for us SaaS product providers - lower margins, and more competition for the same reasons. I welcome it. More quality and choice at a better price for everyone.

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Post by shampto3 »

throwaw12 wrote: post #207

I wonder how Gitlab slipped this obvious AI market opportunity, they had very good position in code self hosting used by so many enterprises. just add repo-level agents, org-level agents and done. they could have got 50B valuation by now

GitLab already has AI agents and agentic workflows. See their "Duo Agent Platform" https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-duo-agent-platform/

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Petersipoi wrote: post #152
fwip wrote: post #133

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Good god. There is that hacker spirit. Who hurt you?

Probably the ever-increasing corporate homogenization, sanitization, and empty words that are flooding the internet (only accelerated by LLMs, of course). Which, for readers playing along at home, is kind of antithetical to the "hacker spirit."

Re: Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

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Post by chris_money202 »

esafak wrote: post #215
chris_money202 wrote: post #106

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GitHub is crashing due to scaling pressure. Something GH is much more equipped to solve long term.

How long term are we talking here? Github was acquired in 2018...

I think GH/Microsoft got caught by surprise to the huge usage number increase as a result of LLMs. Microsoft started rolling all of its DCs to OpenAI around 2019-2020 to begin LLM training, then we saw a huge GH increase in late 2024 and Azure was just out of capacity for infinite GH scale.
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