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GitHub is a long running business with a mature software stack running into scaling issues while they move to Azure and becoming Microsoft-ified. Claude is a new company in a new market with an extremely fast growing userbase running relatively novel AI infrastructure with a business model they are still figuring out.

I don't really blame Anthropic here.

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Not trying to argue with you, GitHub (the core product) seems to have been in maintenance mode since the acquisition.

I couldn’t find any public data on GitHub, but Google Trends shows a sharp increase starting in December.

That could be in part to people complaining about the outages, but more people than ever are writing code with AI.

Hence the parallel to Eternal September – code volume is up, quality is down, and programming is never going to return to how it was (difficult for “normal” people to interface with).

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