The whole GitHub infra is cracking under the AI-boom's increased load. This can very well be just another symptom of the same thing.

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munk-a a day ago | parent | next [-]

Don't buy the BS about them being overwhelmed by AI code when they've also had terrible vibe-coded feature rollouts repeatedly break the site and are trying to rapidly increase their feature surface to kill off competing test runners and review managers. Maybe github, if well managed, would struggle in the current day - but it simply isn't.

	▲	craftkiller a day ago \| parent [-]
		I self-host my own code forge (a gitea instance) and I've mirrored a couple of large repositories on it. The traffic from AI crawlers was bringing my entire server to its knees. As soon as I put the large repos behind a login, my server's CPU usage dropped to ~5%. I don't doubt for a second that github is under a torrential downpour of AI crawler traffic. Those locusts destroy everything they touch.

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serf 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

such a cop-out when its policy shifts that are destroying it.

let's be real : it's microsoft.