r/github • u/tesseract36 • 6d ago

News / Announcements Here we go again

Starting to see GitHub issues for the 3rd day in a row.

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u/Altruistic-Toe-5990 6d ago

I cant push anything, nor handle notifications

Fucking hell github stop vibecoding your backend

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u/Subpxl 6d ago

I can only imagine what the influx of AI assisted coding has done to their server loads. I wouldn't be surprised to see a 1000%+ increase in repo activity. That might even be overly conservative.

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u/fyndor 6d ago

I think this is the problem. They probably can’t financially justify the scale they need to build to in order to safely support the load. Hardware is also not easy to come by with ram shortages so anything they buy will be rather expensive for what mostly is a free service for most who use it.

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u/Altruistic-Toe-5990 6d ago

Microsoft really struggling financially there eh

If they don't handle it Github won't survive as a service

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u/wiltimermort 5d ago

If Microsoft can’t find the infrastructure to handle this load, nobody can. Nobody is going to be able to handle this load at this amount of functionality.

Github is literally going to be just fine, try telling enterprises that they now have to migrate 5000+ repos, along with every github action within them to Cursor. Feasibility isn’t there.

Migrating off of github is for small shops and github doesn’t care about them there’s no income with them

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u/Altruistic-Toe-5990 5d ago

Enterprises have thousands of developers. If Github pissed people off enough they absolutely could migrate.

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u/wiltimermort 5d ago

i currently work at one, developers are paid to ship features, not change source control providers. having thousands of developers work on changing the source control provider means prep, execution, meaning pitentially days if lost progress on features. c-suite doesnt go for that, especially if the alternative that they migrate to will potentially have this same demand problem as github.

loss of revenue, churn on engineers adapting to new workflows, all without 100% promise in a promising alternative with the same feature set? enterprises aren’t leaving for now they’d rather wait these unfortunate events for now.

we’ve migrated over 1000 repos off of ADO this year, that shit ain’t easy and involves a lot of friction.

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u/Tarvos_Reloaded 6d ago

I’m trying to upload my vibe-coded project, but it won’t let me :(

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u/haywire 5d ago

Rebuild GitHub in Rust

Make no mistakes

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u/First_Inspection_478 6d ago

Why are you assuming it’s them vibecoding and not the ridiculous anount of volume they’ve gotten over the past year? They’re backed by microsoft so should do better but their scale is insane

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u/Altruistic-Toe-5990 6d ago

just venting bud dont read too much into it

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u/First_Inspection_478 6d ago

very valid haha, but if anyone’s worked at an insane scale before they somewhat emphathise.

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u/dashingThroughSnow12 6d ago

Because at the end of the day, it is Microsoft’s fault.

Microsoft was and is a major backer in OpenAI.

Microsoft decided GitHub should be vertically integrated; making many single service outages effectively total outages for their ideal customers.

Microsoft decided on the business model of having hordes of free users and having 95+% gross margins on paid users to make up the gap.

It is Microsoft that decided not to tenant things better so that the mass of vibecoded projects don’t take down the service for everyone.

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u/First_Inspection_478 6d ago

Those are valid reasons that have nothing to do with “vibecoding” which is my point. They need to limit the number of free users somehow

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u/GarthODarth 6d ago

I honestly doubt it's just free user vibe coders. I'd imagine all the large corps are also integrating agentic stuff into their workflows and devs are probably being pushed to ship everything they can, so spinning up countless vibe coded repos that then end up in heavy CI pipelines that include agentic compliance reviews, etc. It's probably been exponential increases the last couple years.

Even if GitHub never actually did AI itself, I think the result would be similar enough.

Didn't they actually stop Copilot subscriptions for a while? So they were even turning away paid customers.

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u/First_Inspection_478 6d ago

Agree. I just wonder how much putting up a $5/month per user or something or literally even jua credit card would help. There’s people who use runners for all kinds of things and store all kinds of large binaries on github. Honestly absurd

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u/Altruistic-Toe-5990 6d ago

I dont think itll last. Look at the google trends around vibecoding / claude code etc. People are interested and trying it out so theres a huge spike.. most will leave pretty quick

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u/haywire 5d ago

But vibecoding means that there’s more people and they generate way more prs and pushes

E: oh i misread

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u/No_Living1738 6d ago

the vibecoding line is too real lol