Posted by richtr 15 hours ago
I understand how appealing it is to build an AI coding agent and all that, but shouldn't they - above everything else - make sure they remain THE platform for code distribution, collaboration and alike? And it doesnt need to be humans, that can be agents as well.
They should serve the AI agent world first and foremost. Cause if they dont pull that off, and dont pull off building one of the best coding agents - whcih so far they didnt - there isn't much left.
There's so many new features needed in this new world. Really unclear why we hear so little about it, while maintainers smack the alarm bell that they're drowning in slop.
That's the reason you hear the complaints: they're from people who no longer want to be using this product but have no choice.
Because Microsoft doesn't need to innovate or even provide good service to keep the flies glued, they do what they've been doing: focus all their resources on making the glue stickier rather than focusing on making people want to stay even if they had an option to leave.
Codespaces specifically is quite good for agent heavy teams. Launch a full stack runtime for PRs that are agent owned.
> keep hearing that Github is terrible
GH is many things to many teams and my sense is that some parts of it are currently less stable than others. But the overall package is still quite good and delivers a lot of value, IMO.
There is a bit of an echo chamber effect with GH to some degree.
More recently:
Addressing GitHub's recent availability issues
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/addressing-gi...
(with a smattering of submissions here the last few weeks but no discussion)
2026-02-27T10:11:51.1425380Z ##[error]The runner has received a shutdown signal. This can happen when the runner service is stopped, or a manually started runner is canceled. 2026-02-27T10:11:56.2331271Z ##[error]The operation was canceled.
I had to disable the workflows.
GitHub support response has been
“ We recommend reviewing the specific job step this occurs at to identify any areas where you can lessen parallel operations and CPU/memory consumption at one time.”
That plus other various issues makes me start to think about alternatives, and it would have never occurred to me one year back.
[0] https://github.com/Barre/ZeroFS/actions/runs/22480743922/job...
Once we got the email that they were going to charge for self-hosted runners that was the final nail in the coffin for us. They walked it back but we've lost faith entirely in the platform and vision.
CI "simplification" there gets stale fast once plugins age out of sync, upgrades turn into archaeology, and some random maintainer vanishes. Losing faith in GitHub is one thing, but paying an engineer to babysit CI infra every week is usually a worse deal than the SaaS bill.
Jenkins has possibly the worst user experience of any piece of software I’ve had to use in the last few years. It’s slow, brittle, somehow both heavyweight and has no features, littered with security vulns due to architecture, is impossible to navigate, has absolutely no standardisation for usage.
And yet it’s still more reliable than GHA.