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The August 17 outage
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Re: The August 17 outage
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#803I applaud GitHub. However, I think no matter how valiant they are they will not climb out from under this. The scale problem will keep getting worse, and it's getting worse in a way I don't think is translating to more money for them. Sooner or later, they're going to have to charge for things currently free. I've been saying this for a while: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534499
They are effectively getting spammed / ddosed by vibe coders pushing slop nobody uses. A majority of this increased traffic is the codex/claude in auto mode used by people who don’t even know what git is.
Not sure why you got downvoted. You're mostly right.
Re: The August 17 outage
#804Earlier quoted context omitted.
That would just drive users into the arms of the alternatives, which would love to own the world's code... like Cursor/Musk. Microsoft and GitHub's only option is to suck it up, absorb this growth, and lower failure rates. They have the money, so that's not the issue. As someone on the sidelines, this is really interesting to watch unfold.
Why would any company want coding data now? It's all garbage. I'd be surprised if anything past 2025 is even used for training.
Let me add one more reply here.
Even if I accepted that given the new repos: all the new code = "It's all garbage." - I would certainly love to be in a position to observe the new code + metadata = software trends, as software eats the remaining world.