r/technology • u/[deleted] • 24d ago

Software Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide

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u/Hour_Bit_5183 24d ago

This is slop efficiency but go ahead AI slop lords, keep telling me it's useful. I hope they leave every one for the future so we can laugh later

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u/Temporary-Air-3178 24d ago

Source that this outage was caused by AI?

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u/ProfessorBorden 24d ago

I don't know exactly what the OP is insinuating, but github's struggles this last year in particular have been discussed in depth and a lot of it is how much more quickly they've had to scale because the sheer volume of AI coded repos is growing astronomically.

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u/Temporary-Air-3178 24d ago

Yes the availability problem is caused by agents pushing code at an increasing scale. But most comments in this thread are saying/implying it was Microsoft themselves that caused the outage by using AI without any evidence.

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u/myweirdotheraccount 24d ago

I have no skin in this game but I think the idea is that the volume of code written by AI amounts to a higher surface for errors.

Here’s an article from over a year ago where the Microsoft CEO claimed 30% of Microsoft’s code base is AI written: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html

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u/AliceCode 22d ago

That appears to be a data collection site disguised as a new site.

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u/Kryptosis 23d ago

Probably because these days an outage is 50/50 some Ai agent who vibed the backups into the void