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Re: GitHub is once again down

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Post by danillonunes »

davebranton wrote: post #168
proc0 wrote: post #71

It's starting to really look like the AI effect. It might be coincidence but I've noticed a lot more downtime and bad software lately. The last Nvidia drivers gave me a blue screen (last week or so), and speaking about Windows, I froze updates last year because it was clear they were introducing a bunch of issues with every update (not to mention unwanted features). I like AI but actually not for coding because code…

Interesting how many people "Like AI" because it's good at all the jobs other than the one they happen to make a living doing. Did you hear about the screenwriters school in which the professors said to avoid AI for writing, but it's great for storyboards. And the storyboard school where the professors said the opposite? The reality is that AI isn't actually "good" at anything. It produces passable ersatz facsimiles…

It's a version of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.

Re: GitHub is once again down

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

denkmoon wrote: post #156
jwoq9118 wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For GitHub to remain profitable they have to appease those shareholders you mentioned.

Why? What is the correlation between profit and shareholder sentiment (besides the fact that shareholders want said profits)? They don't really influence the operation of the business meaningfully.

Growth chart gotta go up. Only chumps run a business that makes a steady return.

Re: GitHub is once again down

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Post by AustinDev »

guywithabike wrote: post #49

The worst part of all this is that GitHub's CTO and VP of Engineering sent out the usual "here's what we'll do to fix things" letter to their larger customers and, without exaggeration, it boiled down to: 1) "Here's a bunch of stuff we already did!" which... clearly isn't working, and 2) "We're continuing our Azure migration." also clearly not working. So needless to say, if you depend on GitHub for critical business…

Vibe coding and it's consequences.

"The evidence is clear: Either you embrace AI, or get out of this career." -Github CEO

"Sooner than later, 80% of the code is going to be written by Copilot. And that doesn’t mean the developer is going to be replaced." -Github CEO

Re: GitHub is once again down

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Post by thewhitetulip »

proc0 wrote: post #71

It's starting to really look like the AI effect. It might be coincidence but I've noticed a lot more downtime and bad software lately. The last Nvidia drivers gave me a blue screen (last week or so), and speaking about Windows, I froze updates last year because it was clear they were introducing a bunch of issues with every update (not to mention unwanted features). I like AI but actually not for coding because code…

We had more and more outages on EVERYTHING since AI. Not sure what they're doing.

Re: GitHub is once again down

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Post by denkmoon »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #182
denkmoon wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? What is the correlation between profit and shareholder sentiment (besides the fact that shareholders want said profits)? They don't really influence the operation of the business meaningfully.

Growth chart gotta go up. Only chumps run a business that makes a steady return.

Sure, but I think it's the wrong way around. Appeasing shareholders doesn't make you profitable, being profitable appeases shareholders. I think there is a wealth of evidence that appeasing shareholders actually impedes profits overall.

Re: GitHub is once again down

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Post by theamk »

merlindru wrote: post #77
paxys wrote: post #42

Took a full 8 years for a Microsoft acquisition to go to shit, which is probably a record. Kudos to the Github team for holding out this long.

GitHub has always been incredibly outage riddled no? This is not a MSFT thing

It was not nearly as bad... I remember our company migrating to github.com, and believe it or not, it was significant performance/uptime benefit over our self-hosted instance.

(And the first thing to go was occasional 500's on github-hosted files.. the core service itself - git, PR, actions - were pretty stable until recently)

Re: GitHub is once again down

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Post by zzo38computer »

I do not care about much of it other than the git and API. I also sometimes use the Issues, although only with the API. But if it stops working sometimes, that is not too significantly a problem since the files can be sent after they start to work again; it does not have to be immediately.
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