Comment by robinhood | Hacker News Reader

Comment by robinhood | Hacker News Reader

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Internet has made it incredibly easy for people to simply complain about everything all the time. Negativity never helped humanity move forward - this post is a just a complain. The good thing? The author could actually contribute to Gitlab's code instead of writing what they should do instead because they are noobs and have no idea on to write performant code.

Secondly, I'm actually grateful for all these years where Github was amazing and helped the open source tremendously, my projects included. Github had ten amazing years. I'll be forever grateful for that. It still helps the OSS community, by the way, despite all its uptime challenges.

Thirdly, I agree, there are UX challenges that are barely justifiable, but on the uptime front, I sympathize with their teams to have to deal with the gazillion pull requests and comments made by AI agents and bots, which indeed impact performance tremendously.

1. Negativity moves humanity forward all the time. Have you read the American declaration of independence lately? It is mostly an enormous list of complaints about the British government. As citizens we have both the right and the duty to call out abuses when we see them. (The article's title is a reference to Charles Sumner's 1856 speech "The Crime against Kansas", a historic callout post if there ever was one).

2. I provide direct, actionable solutions. Saying I have to submit the PR is just moving the goalposts.

3. I have no idea if they know how to write performant code: all I know is that they don't.

4. The fact that GitHub was good for ten years and is now hot garbage is exactly my point. It should make you less tolerant of its decay, not more.

5. It is entirely within GitHub's power to rate limit the bots to protect their actual users. They choose not to do so, because they care about "ai" more than customers.

Isn't your whole post "just a complaint" too?

The first few words perhaps, to point out that well, stop complaining.

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