alt Hacker NewsIt's not great. Just talked to a hubber last week. They said everyone inside feels pretty dejected right now, and these posts don't help.
I feel for them -- with AI coders submitting 25 PRs within an hour of an issue being filed, GitHub bears the brunt of that along with the maintainers. That's a lot of work that gets done with each PR.
But they need to make some changes quickly.
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I wouldn't feel too bad for them with their top-of-market comp and valuable RSU packages.
I just dont really buy the explanation though. It seems so solvable to hack a throttle or something in place, especially for non-paid plans. The cracks were also showing before AI hit the scene.
Im not saying this is the end-game solution but absolutely they could have put temporary safeguards in place while they "figure it out" if it _really_ is just AI driven slop setting their computers on fire.
"AI coders submitting 25 PRs within an hour of an issue being filed, GitHub bears the brunt of that....".
What "brunt"? These are not large numbers.
The whole "anyone can submit a PR" thing has been a UX issue from day one. That probably needs to go away, and I doubt anyone would really miss it. Where Github could help is by providing a means to build trust that doesn't involve random unknown people slinging code at projects.
But the amount of compute needed to serve is not very high. It's all text. The amount of bandwidth and compute needed to serve a Netflix or YouTube is far far harder and they managed just fine.