AI agents have changed the scalability properties of basically the entire internet.

It used to be that GitHub could rely on a finite number of people interacting with their platform in real human ways in real observable patterns. So I'm assuming that they scale for those patterns, and optimize for the UI and UX hotspots.

But now everyone's got a moltbot running 24/7, sometimes many, and it's completely overloading a lot of services. Especially services like GitHub which are very much agent-centric nowadays.

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njovin 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Microsoft buys github.

Microsoft forces AI usage down everyone's throats.

AI bot usage takes down github.

I have to assume that there are some serious fights going on between the poor SRE teams wanting to throttle bots, and MS not wanting to do anything to dissuade AI usage.

	▲	j_maffe 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		How do you throttle bots? Everyone will stop having commit msgs mentioning LLM agents. then what?

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PunchyHamster 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

GH was going down before AI explosion. The start of the trend is MS buying it, not AI explosion, that is just final nail

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DetroitThrow 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>AI agents have changed the scalability properties of basically the entire internet.

Why is GH the only service provider seeing such consistently bad availability then? Everyone has had to scale massively all the time, if GH is choosing moltbots capacity over basic availability for the rest of the humans, they have made the wrong choice.

	▲	mert-kurttutan 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Some people really abuse the f out of the system in a way optimized to take github down. Like they push every minute or for every commit instead of with certain time intervals (e.g. a single push a few times a day for each repo). I follow some of the accounts that run 24/7 agent sesssion. Their projects are not even that novel for the number of commits that appear on the profile. Many of the commits have the log of beads, claude session etc (no change to the actual code). Some of them are ports of some projects to another language. AI surely will increase the productivity, but the waste and noise that some people are willing to commit ....

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dingnuts 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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tardedmeme 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's not new, it's just a DoS, which is a serious crime, just report the attacker to the police if in your country, or block their IP if not. If done accidentally, it's likely not a crime but the police will still scare them to stop doing it.