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 quality is correlated to how well you understand the underlying systems you're building on, and AI is not really reasoning on this level at all. It's clearly synthesizing training data and it's useful in limited ways.

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davebranton 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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 of work that can fool those not skilled in the art. The second reality of AI is that everyone is busy cramming it into their products at the expense of what their products are actually useful for.

Once people realise (1), and stop doing (2), the tech industry has a chance of recovering.

	▲	proc0 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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.
	▲	danillonunes 33 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's a version of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.

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someperson 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

GitHub has been unreliable since before AI. Though it's definitely gotten far worse.

Seemingly the decline started with the Microsoft acquisition in 2018, and subsequent "unlimited private repository" change in 2019 (to match Gitlab's popular offer)

	▲	hparadiz 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		One example is the search being broken for CI logs. It takes over your browser's search hotkey too. What happens is every stage of the log is collapsed so the search doesn't work until you trigger the expansion but if you attempt to search before expanding the search will never work after it's been initialized. It's pretty infuriating when you're trying to find something in a giant build log.

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ivanjermakov 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I bet on rushed Azure migration. A lot can go wrong it devops.

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newbish 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

	▲	qbane 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Productivity is finite. If you pivot entirely to the AI stack, you're going to lose bandwidth for everything else. It's an opportunity cost problem.

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boxingdog 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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