alt Hacker Newsis it me or ever since AI coding became the norm, there have been way more outages with otherwise reliable services?
I get downtime on Supabase every few weeks. Even Cloudflare. And now Github
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Yes, because that caused the usage of the services to skyrocket, GitHub runs on Azure and Azure is experiencing capacity strain due to AI, so GitHub's services are struggling to auto-scale
They are definitely more outages but the question is if these outages are due to the providers using LLMs to build there products and are therefore not delivering the quality they did before or have LLMs enabled a completely new user base to create projects which they deploy in the free tiers of named providers and they simply cannot keep up with the growth and the new influx of free users is skewing their mixed calculations (free vs paid) so heavily that they cannot scale without losing money. I'd probably say it's a mix of both.
No, it's not just you. It is fairly obvious what's happening - the same old Entshittificators now have a great tool to up the speed of entshitification by 100x - thus these crappy outages every other day.
Correct. There’s no incentive to be careful anymore when you can just prompt an LLM to fix it
Not just you, but uncertain whether it's due to unreviewed slop going to production, or increased demand due to slop generation.
No but everyone is pretending that everything is fine. Actually, no, no one is pretending anything. No one cares, really.
GitHub’s instability started when they announced they were wholesale migrating to azure. They’ve been struggling with uptime since before the enormous surge in agentic coding they’re seeing. I don’t doubt that AI has massively increased their load, but u think this is more suspect than that.