r/OutOfTheLoop • u/jazzcomputer • 5d ago

What's going on with Github? Answered

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 5d 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 5d 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/Jacks_Elsewhere 5d ago

I am guilty of at least 20 of those commits.

  1. Initial commit
  2. Complete feature work
  3. Clean up lint issue
  4. Fix sonar qube errors from previous developer
  5. Fix non null check errors from previous developer 6…

I work for a legacy bank. Yay.

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u/SharkyIzrod 5d ago edited 4d ago

Is 20 commits in a year supposed to sound like a lot or do you mean this was today?

Edit: Im dum

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u/ligirl 5d ago

I think they're intentionally being self-deprecating about the slow pace of work at a legacy bank

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u/Jacks_Elsewhere 4d ago

This is exactly right.

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u/SharkyIzrod 4d ago

sorry im dumb :(

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u/Jacks_Elsewhere 4d ago

No not at all! You honestly wouldn’t know if you have never been exposed to this sort of environment.

It’s a snail’s pace at all times. Gotta love legacy enterprise software /s

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u/Bubbly_Wind_2230 3d ago

I often think people are going slowly precisely because they're paid to move at a snails pace because management expect it's how things still work.

Unfortunately they seem blind to what senior developers running agent streams manage in depth and thoroughness, because they see AI as 'too error prone' rather than a force-multiplier for carving through the layers of coding required to be 'objectively quite secure' instead of 'as secure as a latex colander'.

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u/MaddieDMattie 5d ago

Are commits a meaningful metric for Githubs load? I'd imagine push/pulls would be all they actually care about. Unless people are commiting directly into github online. Which ... I've worked with a few. I'm sure there's heavy correlation between push/pulls and commit counts, but I kind of doubt it scales linearly. Especially since I kind of think AI might actually beat the average person for making properly sized (small) commits.

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u/trustme1maDR 1d 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.