Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

# Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? Source: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332495](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332495) [https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332865&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495](https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332865&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495) The obvious answer is to end free unlimited private repos\. Source is no longer a specific thing\. GitHub is just a free S3 or Azure provider\. [https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332990&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495](https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332990&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495) I think this would cut out a lot of the mindless commit activity\. Charge $1/month per repo\. If your project isn't worth that, run your own git or use another free forge\. [https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332793&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495](https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332793&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495) \> Github is struggling because AI\-boosted coding increased the number of commits 14x in the past year, and the pace is still accelerating\. Sure, but how is OpenAI, and Claude handling the increased usage? They are handling it a lot better than Github\. Just because you have fast growth does not mean you can not handle it\. Instead you have to realize that you are entering into a high growth phase and design around that\. It has been clear that we are in a high growth phase for around a year now and Github still hasn't adapted to that properly\. At some point you have to admit that Github ready for the moment\. [https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332972&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495](https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332972&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495) OpenAI and Anthropic are spending hundreds of billions of dollars that they may never recoup forcing the building massive new data centers in the face of widespread protest\. You think GitHub ought to match that? [https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332948&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495](https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332948&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495) They're undergoing the same kind of load\. Almost every AI commit that's putting pressure on GitHub's servers was written on OpenAI and Anthropic's servers\. [https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332900&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495](https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332900&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495) \> Github is struggling because AI\-boosted coding increased the number of commits 14x in the past year, OK so then use the additional revenue to add more resources and employees? What the f\*k are they doing over there? [https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332926&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495](https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332926&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495) \> OK so then use the additional revenue to add more resources and employees? What revenue? I'd assume the people pushing thousands of AI\-generated commits are not the people paying for GitHub Enterprise\. [https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332709&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495](https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332709&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495) Are these disproportionately in the free tier? Or is the increased storage load similar across the paid tiers? Might be worth considering a /GB/MO fee\. Let's face it, VCS is a \(glorified\) storage service\. [https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332920&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495](https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332920&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495) The scam that anthropic pulled, is they remove free tier \(bad idea for Github honestly\), but blame it on AI vibe code abusers\. Instead of for example finding the 1\-5% of absolutely aggregous users like Steipete and restricting them\. [https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332791&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495](https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332791&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495) It is just an excuse\. If they can't support paid member or don't have infra they should start charging these slop projects who are committing relentlessly\. [https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49333048&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495](https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49333048&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495) I think it's two things: \- GitHub attempting \(and seemingly failing\) to move to Azure infrastucture for its website backend \- AI generated code wrecking the site due to the volume of activities\. [https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332619&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495](https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332619&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495) Many microsoft services are down/failing today, including sites hosted on Azure\. I'm guessing it's a larger MS outage\. [https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332966&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495](https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332966&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495) Note that most of the downtime in that graph comes from Github Actions, which simply*didn't exist*before the Microsoft acquisition\. The downtime also starts happening in 2020, which is a while after the acquisition\. 2020 was the year many people started learning to code while being stuck at home\. [https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332827&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495](https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332827&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495) According to that graph, performance drops widely after Microsoft's acquisition before AI enters the scene\. If not Microsoft, how else do you explain it, or is the graph somehow misleading? [https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332995&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495](https://news.ycombinator.com/vote?id=49332995&how=up&goto=item%3Fid%3D49332495) Also the fact that its written in Ruby on Rails probably doesn’t make it easier, performance wise\.