Agents are shipping code faster all over the world and in some cases 24 hours a day. Additionally, some significant number of non-developers are now developers i.e. they are also shipping to github regularly.

This is not limited to just pushing code but all the bells and whistles that github added as features under the assumption of some predictable growth are now exceeding the original plans.

I suspect a lot of their existing systems have to be re-architected for unanticipated scale, and it won't happen overnight for sure.

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prepend 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They were sucking 5 years ago before agents existed. I don’t think this has anything to do with recent changes.

https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/

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Octoth0rpe 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Pretty damning. Would also be interesting to see the number of commits overlayed. The graph tells a great story about the correlation with MS's takeover, but I wonder if at the same time that uptime went to shit, MS was shifting over large numbers of enterprise contracts to github. That would be a more complete story IMO.

None of which excuses this. Can you imagine someone's reaction in 2017 if you told them that github would be below 90% uptime in 2026? It would be unimaginable.

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sarchertech an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That’s nonsense. GitHub didn’t have 100% uptime before 2020. I remember downtime back then. And Microsoft didn’t make changes that fast. The only thing that changed is the accuracy of their status page.

Also go back and look at the unofficial status page from 3 years ago. It’s regularly above 99% and has been dropping steadily since then. Then in the last 3 months has dropped to below 85%.

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p-e-w 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Whoa, if that is even remotely accurate then the talk about agents is a complete red herring.

	▲	theolivenbaum 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If I remember correctly the status page was not precise before the acquisition - so take with a big grain of salt the 100% pre-acquisition values

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potatoman22 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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