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HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

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Re: HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

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Post by gonzo41 »

WestCoader wrote: post #6

Nothing is pissing me off more than GitHub's stability going down the tubes RIGHT as work is migrating everything, and I mean everything, from CircleCI to GH. The wildest thing is that Azure Repos/Pipelines was better than this. Their one caveat is also that they are still migrating it to Azure infra, so it's possible that's still in a one foot in one foot out kinda scenario, from what I've heard. But, this isn't ins…

Mee too. We just did a very similar migration at work it's incredibly frustrating, I've got all my CI ported over and now this.

MSFT should just create slophub.com they'd make money im sure.

Re: HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

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Post by zthrowaway »

UqWBcuFx6NV4r wrote: post #7
flossly wrote: post #3

Is it me, or did get issues get a lot worse with the transfer to MSFT?

Is it just me, or [thing that has been repeated a billion times every day on this and every other website]

It certainly seems like low effort engagement farming.

Re: HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

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Post by 2ndorderthought »

sebastiansm7 wrote: post #4
flossly wrote: post #3

Is it me, or did get issues get a lot worse with the transfer to MSFT?

I think is more related to vibe coding

Agreed. In general the amount and variety of bugs introduced since everyone started vibing is worrying. It is probably a national security concern but I guess so is the economy tanking due to failed AI investments. Guess we will see

Re: HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

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Post by DanielHB »

sebastiansm7 wrote: post #4
flossly wrote: post #3

Is it me, or did get issues get a lot worse with the transfer to MSFT?

I think is more related to vibe coding

Definitely not, I remember some 4 years ago some random bug in a github-supported github-action and a comment in an issue saying: "I heard the team responsible for this action was laid off, don't expect a fix". This was shortly after the microsoft acquisition.

But the vibe coding BS probably made it 10 times worse.

Re: HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

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Post by sdevonoes »

WestCoader wrote: post #6

Nothing is pissing me off more than GitHub's stability going down the tubes RIGHT as work is migrating everything, and I mean everything, from CircleCI to GH. The wildest thing is that Azure Repos/Pipelines was better than this. Their one caveat is also that they are still migrating it to Azure infra, so it's possible that's still in a one foot in one foot out kinda scenario, from what I've heard. But, this isn't ins…

Why do you care about github? It’s Just another corporation doing what they know best: harvesting money. The software ecosystem can live without github just fine

Re: HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

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Post by embedding-shape »

DanielHB wrote: post #15
sebastiansm7 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think is more related to vibe coding

Definitely not, I remember some 4 years ago some random bug in a github-supported github-action and a comment in an issue saying: "I heard the team responsible for this action was laid off, don't expect a fix". This was shortly after the microsoft acquisition. But the vibe coding BS probably made it 10 times worse.

> But the vibe coding BS probably made it 10 times worse.

Yup, keep seeing this in various companies. Teams that were effective and did solid engineering now are more effective and does even better engineering. Teams that were effectively already just "boilerplate monkies" now produce a lot more code than before, but the quality is the same so effectively they're worse at contributing now than before, and take more shortcuts, not less.

From my point of view, agents are amplifiers, so if you usually build spaghetti projects, agents just help you do that faster, not avoid the spaghetti altogether. If you usually build well-designed stuff, they can help you put that together faster.

Re: HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

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Post by redwood »

Let's be honest there's an order of magnitude or more higher throughput volume of PR jitter and new repo bloat which makes this look like a viral digital native at scale.. couple that with being owned by one of the most scale immature companies on the planet ... of course it's a problem.

Get these folks off Azure and Cosmos DB (or whatever MSFT forces them to use) to something real and maybe you'd have a shot

Re: HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

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Post by Mashimo »

gonzo41 wrote: post #11
WestCoader wrote: post #6

Nothing is pissing me off more than GitHub's stability going down the tubes RIGHT as work is migrating everything, and I mean everything, from CircleCI to GH. The wildest thing is that Azure Repos/Pipelines was better than this. Their one caveat is also that they are still migrating it to Azure infra, so it's possible that's still in a one foot in one foot out kinda scenario, from what I've heard. But, this isn't ins…

Mee too. We just did a very similar migration at work it's incredibly frustrating, I've got all my CI ported over and now this. MSFT should just create slophub.com they'd make money im sure.

Honest question, why are companies interested in hosting on github?

As a private person I use it too as a free hoster, but from work I mainly know self hosted instances of jenkins and TeamCity.

Re: HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

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Post by surgical_fire »

thiago_fm wrote: post #8

It isn't surprising at all, Microsoft is doing a PE firm playbook with what they buy. You don't need to look much far, let's think about its biggest acquisition to date, Blizzard. Blizzcon canceled. All of its IP barely got any love. See what players think about the latest World of Warcraft patch. It's absolutely shit and broken. People say they fired the entire QA department since a few years back and since then the…

The thing is that they didn't buy Blizzard, they bought Activision. They were interested in CoD numbers.

I think Diablo Immortal was likely the biggest success Blizz provided there

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