Posted by Footkerchief 23 hours ago
There is no better time to self-host.
Among with assorted thoughts on AI or new model point release announcements.
Now that the calculus has changed, I think we should start asking ourselves whether anyone has the right to unlimited free public repositories.
We can all agree that trying to attribute any single metric to repo quality is subject to Goodhart's Law[1] (e.g. what happened to GitHub stars) yet we can also agree that the Linux Project is a much more vital repository to keep public infrastructure availble for than say, someone's vibe-coded to-do app. Is it impossible then to make any quantitative distinction between these two? We can't have both an uncontrollable firehose of AI slop and unlimited free public storage/compute at the ready for it. I say we actually need to decide what software is worthy of using up these resources for free. We already have companies like JetBrains[2] using dynamic pricing for their products. It's time Github do the same. If you want a hosted VCS for vibe coded projects that aren't being used or depended upon widely, then host the repo yourself.
Honestly I dont think I've seen a tool I used regularly with such a moat lose it simply because they cant keep the service up. Also its hard to not see a pretty strong correlation between a bunch of these big companies doubling down on AI and just having their service go to s%#$. We've had similar issues with Digital Ocean recently, which is pretty lined up with them adding a bunch of "inference" services and rebranding the site to add all the "agent" marketing slop. Looking to move to Hertzner when the time allows.