alt Hacker News> The increased ‘agentic’ load on github is the direct result of their own actions and those of their parent company, Microsoft, and that makes reliability problems their own fault.
Microsoft & Github are not a monolith. it's an institution with dozens of divisions and 100k+ employees all vying for revenue.
Anyone who's worked at a big company knows what it's like to be given an unfunded mandate to serve an important business strategy.
The author moans about the 3 copilot button's on github. meanwhile github has to manage (a) providing loads of free hosting and (b) keeping the servers up.
The entitlement to moan about a free app not providing enough free hosting, and bemoan the engineers who are barely keeping it running.
Author here. I am not a free GitHub customer. The only times I use GitHub are when my consulting clients do, who are by and large GitHub enterprise customers. It is not entitlement to complain about a company that you pay money for a service failing to provide that service by the terms of their own service lifetime agreement, something I point out repeatedly.