What has changed at GitHub to cause this?
Possibly a combination of moving infrastructure to Azure, and also a significant increase in the number of PRs and commits due to Vibe-coding?
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#202Good. Users should be abandoning this vibe-coded hellscape.
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#203The 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…
The worst part is that users still stay and take the abuse.
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#204Good. Users should be abandoning this vibe-coded hellscape.
You're underestimating Microsoft. They're fully capable of fucking up without the help of AI. Although I heard it's really good at that.
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#206It'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…
I think maybe it's not that GitHub is using AI, but that the amount of AI slop going into GitHub may be more than they expected.
Indeed. I used to have 20. Now I have over 500 repos. All ai
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Yeah, I think I heard about that. Within certain domains it is certainly a useful tool. I would say things like online search are much nicer now (in that asking an AI is equivalent to searching online but it summarizes it for you). Online search fits the strengths of LLMs nicely, but right now it's being sold as a silver bullet, which it's not.
I have no design talent but wanted to help my partner with some charts. She was making them in Excel. I had Claude Code build them as web docs and they look quite good. Probably had to give it around thirty instructions about changes, which was pretty inefficient, but then again I couldn't have created them myself and they look far nicer than the charts she got from Excel.
It's really just about recognizing what they can do well and applying them in the right moments.
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Even that doesn’t really make sense to me, unless they’ve done it in a way where everything has to move at once. Everywhere I’ve worked, if a migration is causing this much downtime then you kill the migration or slow it down. If every change has a 10% chance of bringing the site down, you only do a change every week or two until you can work out the kinks.
...or you keep fighting forward with the migration, because if it's seen as a failure then some pretty big heads will have to roll...
Reminds me of the bank for my business where a larger bank with terrible IT bought a smaller bank with great IT - guess which systems they standardized on? Online banking is still much worse than before and the web interface still says "will be migrated by end of 2023" for some parts. Many customers just left and complaints were widely reported in the media. I probably should leave, too.
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Here are some relevant excerpts from an October 2025 article[1]: > In a message to GitHub’s staff, CTO Vladimir Fedorov notes that GitHub is constrained on capacity in its Virginia data center. “It’s existential for us to keep up with the demands of AI and Copilot, which are changing how people use GitHub,” he writes. > The plan, he writes, is for GitHub to completely move out of its own data centers in 24 months. “T…
>It’s existential for us to keep up with the demands of AI and Copilot if by chance the CTO reads this, as a user of GitHub I would find it really existential if GitHub continues functioning as a reliable hub for git workflows (hence the name), and I have the strong suspicion nobody except for the shareholders gives a lick about copilot or 'AI' if it makes the core service the site was designed for unusable
>We are absolutely ramming AI and Copilot down people's throats
>We do not have enough capacity for AI and Copilot, basic functionality is falling apart
Is this sanity or something other than sanity?
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#210Took 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.
To be fair a bunch of this is because the CEO after Nat Friedman (Thomas Dohmke) was pushed out in August 25.
Nat Friedman is a grifter who always shows up and says "I'm with these guys" when somebody or something is successful. I don't think that he was responsible for anything good.