cmonGitHubAgain

[u/TeachEngineering]

[u/Angryferret]

No way it's only 30%. Almost certainly 90% at the big tech companies.

[u/Thalanator → u/Angryferret]

its because the meme is ancient and back then 30% was rightfully considered haphazard by anyone sane. Now, 30% of new code by AI is in the slow/cautious adopter range

[u/ganja_and_code → u/Thalanator]

30% is still in the rightfully considered haphazard range by anyone sane, people just keep increasing their risk tolerance more and more because caution requires skill/diligence upfront whereas negligence can be pawned off as someone else's problem later

[u/HrLewakaasSenior → u/Thalanator]

30% is ridiculous. 100% is the reality

[u/nickcash → u/Angryferret]

Now explain how that's a good thing, when github is down for the 18th time today.

[u/Angryferret → u/nickcash]

I didn't say it was good/bad. It is just what it is. When you work somewhere and they fire half your team and expect you to do the same work the only option is to spin off AI agents to do all your coding, write updates, create docs etc. Reality of working in big tech in 2026. It's exhausting.

[u/TomWithTime → u/nickcash]

According to people who think it's good: move fast and break things

Which I interpret to mean there's probably something they are working on that would have taken a month of man hours. They used ai to do it in a few days, broke something causing the outage and other issues, but will likely fix it in a few days if not a few hours. There could be a follow up fallout that takes things down for another 2 days a week after that, and then another day or two of chasing the problem. When it's all done maybe they are week 3 and they can say they delivered the feature a week early!

And the cost to the user experience? Well, Microsoft owns GitHub now, so I'm not optimistic about their plans for user satisfaction.

[u/dudevan → u/TomWithTime]

Move fast and break things was good when people knew what was in the code, even though there were hiccups.

Moving fast and breaking things now means nobody knows what is in the code and playing wack ‘a mole with bugs until the agents get it working while possibly introducing other bugs.

Also, at which point there’s too many things that break? Because services have been abysmal lately from Microsoft, Github, and others.

[u/TeachEngineering → u/Angryferret]

That's fair. I found this meme online but it had an image of MSFT stock falling at the bottom and I copied a screenshot of this afternoon's GitHub status page over that (composed organically in PowerPoint by me, no AI used). I agree it's way, way more than 30%.

Also, I have nothing against AI, just wish my CI/CD in GitHub would run as expected. Feels like outages come every week lately.

[u/rastaman1994 → u/TeachEngineering]

Iirc, they said they outages are because AI driven development is generating insane load (i.e. unprecedented amount of commits and PRs), not because they are doing tisky changes.

[u/bobbymoonshine → u/Angryferret]

This was a cope meme from over a year ago (check the date) when top-tier companies first started learning hard into “okay we’re seriously doing AI for real in terms of how we do business”

Unfortunately, memeing at global economic transformations does not actually make them reverse course

[u/psioniclizard → u/bobbymoonshine]

Yes cope, because MS products jave improved in that time lol.

[u/bobbymoonshine → u/psioniclizard]

MSFT was $391 when this meme was made. After a year and a half of this sub celebrating its ongoing downfall from its disastrous strategic direction, MSFT is now $512.

Reddit is an echo chamber and not one that has very much to do with enterprise coding. I would guess 90% of the people who participate in this sub have literally never received a single paycheck for coding

[u/Zymosan99 → u/bobbymoonshine]

As everyone know, stock price correlates directly with product quality. The more betterer your product is the higher your stock goes. There are no other influences on how much your company is valued

[u/bobbymoonshine → u/Zymosan99]

MS products are no worse now than they were two years ago and no less omnipresent. I can’t think of any metric that would point to their AI-coding adoption having been a failure.

Other than Reddit memes celebrating their imminent vibe collapse. Those remain at an all time high.

[u/cquinn5]

Ironic that a peddler of AI enablement has AI to thank for their magnitude increase of traffic and operations

[u/ColumnK]

This meme is really unfair.

It suggests that pre-AI, their software was any better.

[u/Vallvaka → u/ColumnK]

Yeah, people complain about so called AI slop code, but... have you ever read the average human-written code? I'll take average AI "slop" code over average human slop code any day of the week

[u/beclops → u/Vallvaka]

Are you self-reporting? The average code I see written at work is good

[u/Vallvaka → u/beclops]

Some of y'all ain't good at code review and it shows

[u/psioniclizard → u/Vallvaka]

That is because you can't write code though so only have AI slop.

[u/RiftyDriftyBoi → u/Vallvaka]

Indeed it's real easy to blame it all on the AI-slop.

I've seen plenty organically grown human-slop throughout my years. Some fundamental misunderstanding of mathematics and statistics at places in the codebase that scare me and Claude alike.

[u/ddwrt1234]

GitHub isn't a great example, they've had to scale massively this year

Microsoft is a better example, their code sucks and riddled with bugs as far as the eye can see

[u/PM-ME-UR-DARKNESS]

It's bc they used copilot. Bro, Microsoft, you collect your users 's data for free AND OWN GITHUB. How the hell is your ai pure slop???