> Github’s servers are constantly on fire as their usage increased something like 50x due to LLM sloppers pushing large amounts of trash code

Which means they have a pricing problem. Rate limit non-paying users.

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xnorswap 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Just take away free Actions and it would surely solve a lot of their scale issues.

It's absurd that I have dozens of repos, many with GH Actions that run CI, test and then package and push to prod/package managers, and haven't paid GH anything.

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

Right. It is not an excuse and they were notorious for outages before LLM era. Also, LLM can serve Github engineers as well, so we are all playing in the same field.

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

They already do

	▲	rzzzt 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I can't check the commit history of some OSS projects without hitting a rate limit if I'm not signed in. My request rate is one request per (arbitrary time interval) at that point.

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chrisjj 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No. It means they have a capacity problem.