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I had to begrudgingly use GitHub over my preference GitLab to use some 3rd party AI features.
The solution for GitHub is to charge or rate-limit some of these 3rd parties integrations and come up with an equitable solution.
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The only real way to browse the site is to be logged in.
They will gradually authwall everything they can. Just look at linkedin.
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of all the awful things AI is doing and will be doing to society, killing centralized code hosting and social media will be its shinniest moments, both deserve to die painful deaths
Yes, the terrible sin of ... Hosting code where people can find it
I often think about how I’d do it if I ran my own company. I would really like to see what it would be like doing all code reviews over email. The repo would just be a simple vps-style server with git-only ssh access, there’d be a particular for-review/ branch namespace for code to be reviewed, and CI would just be a bot waiting for branches to show up and would mark refs as good or not by just annotating/tagging the…
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Yeah, I had the exact same response after reading the post. I mean, I'm all for jumping on the Microsoft hate train, but not if it misses the elephant in the room. Let's say the _perfect_ GitHub replacement spawns tomorrow? What's preventing the same infrastructure challenges of millions of lines of AI-generated code destroying it? I think centralized code hosting is pretty much going to get killed by AI. Just like i…
> I mean, I'm all for jumping on the Microsoft hate train, but not if it misses the elephant in the room. That elephant didn’t even exist yet for the first few years of poor uptime shown in the graph in TFA… I don’t really disagree if we’re talking about the recent uptime issues, but how does that explain the years 2020-2023?
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Yah, the monitization bit is challanging. I'll ask my agent to click some of the ads GitHub serves it ;-) But getting this infrastructure right is crucial for a future where most of the code is AI generated. GitHub puts microsoft in a good position to experiment and learn how to optimize GitHub (enterprise) for the future. Nate b Jones on youtube, https://youtu.be/FDkvRl1RlT0?si=AEYlUchm_oalMSzf , argues that Atlassi…
> But getting this infrastructure right is crucial for a future where most of the code is AI generated. That's not the problem. The revenue model they have is based on a certain amount of usage from the people who do not pay (you, for example), and a certain amount of usage from the people who do pay (enterprises). If you 100x you usage, then they need 100x the infra, which means they need 100x the revenue. At that s…
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I've been running a self-hosted Forgejo. Extremely responsive and I've been really happy with it.
How many PRs from other people have you received on your self-hosted Forgejo instance?
They're free to email me a diff :-)
Jokes aside, the era of community built software is coming to an end. There is no place in the world now for a repository of open source projects.
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Yah, the monitization bit is challanging. I'll ask my agent to click some of the ads GitHub serves it ;-) But getting this infrastructure right is crucial for a future where most of the code is AI generated. GitHub puts microsoft in a good position to experiment and learn how to optimize GitHub (enterprise) for the future. Nate b Jones on youtube, https://youtu.be/FDkvRl1RlT0?si=AEYlUchm_oalMSzf , argues that Atlassi…
> But getting this infrastructure right is crucial for a future where most of the code is AI generated. That's not the problem. The revenue model they have is based on a certain amount of usage from the people who do not pay (you, for example), and a certain amount of usage from the people who do pay (enterprises). If you 100x you usage, then they need 100x the infra, which means they need 100x the revenue. At that s…
Things that have “usage based billing” (like action monites) grow closer to 2x YoY.
When there's a dollar amount attached, people don't 10x, because it's not worth it. They splurge when it's cheap, and unlimited.
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They will gradually authwall everything they can. Just look at linkedin.
Wouldn't this break Go and other build systems (npm?) that pull packages from github by default? Not that I endorse the practise, but will Microsoft really kick out such a big class of users?
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> But getting this infrastructure right is crucial for a future where most of the code is AI generated. That's not the problem. The revenue model they have is based on a certain amount of usage from the people who do not pay (you, for example), and a certain amount of usage from the people who do pay (enterprises). If you 100x you usage, then they need 100x the infra, which means they need 100x the revenue. At that s…
Well either Microsoft finds a way, or Anthropic will. I'm sure they'd love to host all these projects with all the source and context. Maybe they should buy GitLab, or Atlassian.
Just what sort of nonsense is this? Neither of them are going to operate at a loss.
Why are you so convinced that they'd be happy to continue spending money on you and getting none in return?