Author here: thanks whoever shared this here. I love the brutal criticism and critical thinking of this community. I'm also fully aware of the emotions this stirs. If it makes you feel better, I'm not here to change anyone's workflow but I'm fed up with paying full price for degrading service. Just last week Github went down due to a stupid retrial error. We also had AI agents going rogue and hacking companies and governments. I use AI (specifically LLMs) every day since they came out 4 years ago. I also build AI-powered products. This is not about being anti-AI. I'm just fed up with slop being pushed as progress. Get your sh*t together. That's all.

If anyone has counter-arguments or cares to make me smarter, I'm all ears.

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automatic6131 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You are too civilized: I recommend threatening drop kicks to insufficiently smart rebuttlers.

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boxed 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, as far as counter arguments go, github had plenty of downtime before LLMs, and they didn't deal with exponential growth then. If you don't count the "it gets harder" side but only counts the "they had problems" side, then yea, that might look bad, but that's not very honest imo.

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Insanity 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Not looking up the outage stats for Github (not sure how accurate they are historically). But going off by what I notice on HN the past months / year, it definitely seems like GH is experiencing more downtown than pre-2022.

But maybe I'm misremembering how fragile GH was in the 2010s.

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boxed 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Sure. They also have 10x the load or something crazy like that. It's rather incredible that it's still up at all. Microsoft must be pouring crazy amounts of money down that drain and gnashing their teeth at their decision to buy GitHub.

	▲	Insanity 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't really give them an excuse for the "10x load increase". The company that owns GitHub is literally a hyperscaler. If they can't handle the scale, there's something seriously wrong at Azure.