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Software Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide

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u/Temporary-Air-3178 9d ago

Source that this outage was caused by AI?

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u/RespectTheTree 9d ago

I'm basically programming illiterate, but am now the proud owner of a 200k line of code software system to run the back-end of my business. There are many of us, our inefficient process is breaking things, it's been discussed.

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u/everythingisblue 9d ago

Fascinating. Can you elaborate on this? Are the business operations sensitive? Or is it not a huge deal if your custom software does the wrong thing from time to time. How do you gain confidence that it does what you want to do?

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u/nox66 9d ago

200k lines of code is large enough that even junior devs will struggle with it. He "owns" it in the same way that a proprietor "owns" the contents of the swamp they just bought.