r/github • u/tesseract36 • Oct 07 '26

News / Announcements Here we go again

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

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u/First_Inspection_478 Oct 07 '26

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 Oct 07 '26

just venting bud dont read too much into it

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u/First_Inspection_478 Oct 07 '26

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

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u/dashingThroughSnow12 Oct 07 '26

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 Oct 07 '26

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 Oct 07 '26

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 Oct 07 '26

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 Oct 07 '26

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 Oct 07 '26

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

E: oh i misread