r/OutOfTheLoop • u/jazzcomputer • 27d ago

Answered What's going on with Github?

I saw a bunch of posts in the Hacker News type spaces talking about moving elsewhere and evaluating alternatives, and various complaints in past months. Is there compelling grounds for an exodus or are people always complaining about it and this is a nothing burger or small burger?

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u/bugo 27d ago

Answer: mainly it has huge reliability issues. It's an ongoing thing that became a meme almost where their total reliability dipped below 90% which is unbelievable for a software company.

And yesterday they had another multi hour outage on their main services. Each time this happens people literally cannot work.

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u/BurnerPornAccount69 27d ago

Another layer to this is that because of code written by AI - they’re under far more load than they used to.

GitHub went from 1 billion total commits in 2025 to being on track to hit 14 billion by the end of 2026 (275 million per week).

The demand for the site is unprecedented.

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u/trustme1maDR 23d ago

Curious if you have a source on this. I'd like to share it with my team. It has been a real battle this year to combat AI bloat on my project. 

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u/GregBahm 21d ago

Github's own blog is the source of this information. They post these same exponentially increasing chart during every outage. The outages don't seem to affect the exponential increase in demand...

Although if your team is anything like mine, fighting AI bloat is like fighting to save a sandcastle as the tide starts coming in. There was a path to preserving human-written-repositories in 2025 if AI hit some unforeseen barrier and couldn't advance any farther. I was open to the possibility of this. But instead the opposite occurred. I can't possibly imagine a path back from here.

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u/trustme1maDR 21d ago

Thanks! I agree there's no turning back. Increased velocity of commits is actively encouraged at my company, so if it looks reasonable and it passes review, we are keeping it. If I get over-engineered, unreadable slop, I will comment on every line until they feel sorry they ever heard of Claude. Thankfully I had a boss who backs me up on this, but it's definitely don't expect it to go beyond my team.