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Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

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Post by roryirvine »

bluerooibos wrote: post #69
flexagoon wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> OK so then use the additional revenue to add more resources and employees? What revenue? I'd assume the people pushing thousands of AI-generated commits are not the people paying for GitHub Enterprise.

> What revenue I'd assume at least a portion of them are paying for GitHub Pro, and by now at least a small % would have converted to Enterprise. If not, then they need to fix their operational model - I don't understand people acting like this is some insurmountable challenge given Microsoft reported over $331 billion in total revenue and an operating income exceeding $155 billion in 2026.

Changing the operating model can be surprisingly tough for an established business. Imagine the outcry if they started charging per git push, for example.

Clearly, something needs to change. But if they're not careful they might provoke a reaction from their existing userbase that's even more negative that the response to these outages.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

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Post by rurban »

bluerooibos wrote: post #70
thevinter wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What revenue do AI-boosted commits provide? Am I missing something?

You're missing the fact that Microsoft reported over $331 billion in total revenue and an operating income exceeding $155 billion - this is a fixable problem. If they're really that cash-strapped at GitHub, then are they planning to just continue allowing this to happen and drown, or fix the issues? This has been ongoing for over a year.

So why did all the Azure and Github engineers leave then? There's only management and outsourced cheap labor there, and management has no idea. Cheap labor even less

Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

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Post by palerdot »

tux3 wrote: post #45
adzuci wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are they? https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status doesn't support this afaict.

The page shows all green, which coincidentally is also how it looks when Azure is down. That page is for SLA/billing purposes, it won't show live incidents as they occur.

> That page is for SLA/billing purposes, it won't show live incidents as they occur.

lol ... That is absolutely hilarious ... I'm not sure if it is /s, but if this is true, enterprise stupidity has reached a new level.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

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Post by sharts »

tristanj wrote: post #8

Github is struggling because AI-boosted coding increased the number of commits 14x in the past year, and the pace is still accelerating. The site is struggling to keep up. Github's COO confirms it here: https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878 Platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. As of three months ago, it was 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth rema…

I would take what C-level execs say with a grain of salt. Remember these folks hire people with plenty of system design experience. They likely also have the money for hardware resources.

If load was an issue these things would have been solved already. Or they are purposely causing millions of dollars of productivity loss daily by not solving this.

Something more serious is at play. And I want to hear from the actual underlings.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

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Post by neko_ranger »

odo1242 wrote: post #47
SoftTalker wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this would cut out a lot of the mindless commit activity. Charge $1/month per repo. If your project isn't worth that, run your own git or use another free forge.

I think GitHub leans on this free repos thing a lot for getting new users though. Like I could see people just moving to GitLab

Free private repos on github is relatively new, only introduced after a rise in popularity of gitlab (which has free private repos).

Seems like github is too popular for itself.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

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Post by odo1242 »

rep_movsd wrote: post #67

If you are doing 1000 commits a day, whats the point of git? Does the AI ever look back at the shit trail it left behind? Diffs are no longer diffs, they look like largescale delete and rewrite

AI definitely does look at git commit history in my experience

Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

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Post by bluerooibos »

roryirvine wrote: post #71
bluerooibos wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What revenue I'd assume at least a portion of them are paying for GitHub Pro, and by now at least a small % would have converted to Enterprise. If not, then they need to fix their operational model - I don't understand people acting like this is some insurmountable challenge given Microsoft reported over $331 billion in total revenue and an operating income exceeding $155 billion in 2026.

Changing the operating model can be surprisingly tough for an established business. Imagine the outcry if they started charging per git push, for example. Clearly, something needs to change. But if they're not careful they might provoke a reaction from their existing userbase that's even more negative that the response to these outages.

> can be tough

Of course it can - everything is tough at that scale, but their parent company has billions in profit. They've had a year to come up with a plan/fix and have failed miserably.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

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Post by pan69 »

sharts wrote: post #74
tristanj wrote: post #8

Github is struggling because AI-boosted coding increased the number of commits 14x in the past year, and the pace is still accelerating. The site is struggling to keep up. Github's COO confirms it here: https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878 Platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. As of three months ago, it was 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth rema…

I would take what C-level execs say with a grain of salt. Remember these folks hire people with plenty of system design experience. They likely also have the money for hardware resources. If load was an issue these things would have been solved already. Or they are purposely causing millions of dollars of productivity loss daily by not solving this. Something more serious is at play. And I want to hear from the actua…

> I would take what C-level execs say with a grain of salt.

100% agree.

> Remember these folks hire people with plenty of system design experience.

Not my overall experience 30 years in the industry.

> They likely also have the money for hardware resources.

You'll always be asked to do more with less, at least, that's my own experience.

Re: Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

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Post by baal80spam »

bhouston wrote: post #15
tristanj wrote: post #8

Github is struggling because AI-boosted coding increased the number of commits 14x in the past year, and the pace is still accelerating. The site is struggling to keep up. Github's COO confirms it here: https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878 Platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. As of three months ago, it was 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth rema…

> Github is struggling because AI-boosted coding increased the number of commits 14x in the past year, and the pace is still accelerating. Sure, but how is OpenAI, and Claude handling the increased usage? They are handling it a lot better than Github. Just because you have fast growth does not mean you can not handle it. Instead you have to realize that you are entering into a high growth phase and design around that…

> They are handling it a lot better than Github.

No, they are not.

https://status.claude.com/

https://www.githubstatus.com/

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