the lesson congress learned from the Hillary Clinton coronation getting derailed by Obama was to absolutely never ever vote on anything important

Can you elaborate what you mean?

In 2002, Hillary Clinton voted for the Iraq War. In 2008 Obama used that fact successfully to [help] win the Democratic nomination and went on to beat McCain.

absolutely nothing in going to happen in the US congress until 2029

we're essentially one year of three into one of the least effective lame duck legislative bodies we'll ever see

I think owning GitHub is a prestige play, not necessarily thought of as a profit center.

Now however, it's competing for resources directly with the corporations core strategic plans.

GitHub having issues is embarrassing, but the shareholders don't really care.

I've always wondered about that. I've suspected the same as you, it's mostly a brand / "ecosystem" thing.

When you're the uncontested market leader, you don't budget operations to be perfectly reliable, you budget to not be too unreliable. All those 9's are expensive after all.

The AI boom caught them napping though, and they're slipping well into the too unreliable category

> The AI boom caught them napping though

Microsoft, who invested eyewatering sums into AI, even near to betting the whole company on an AI boom, is surprised about the AI boom?

Microsoft bet everything on possible AGI, no one thought the result would be a bonafide commit printing machine.

That's not what Nadella said 1-2 years ago. Everyone seemed pretty aware of LLMs soon being able to handle a lot of steps of software development.

I bet it's mostly due to Azure being brittle and the AI boom is just a nice cover story (not saying it's not challenging to handle all that new load) to save face and sell more Azure services.

100% if this post (https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporize...) is anything to go by, it could explain much of the scaling & reliability issues.Perhaps github not being built to scale this fast + being hosted on azure is closer to the truth.

PRRRR

Microsoft considers it a bonus if a hype lets one department cripple another department.

cloudflares lack of spending caps and and usage alerts is a seriously unnerving approach

I shutdown all my little informational hobby projects this year that I've tinkered with for decades

They all shifted from mostly paying for themselves (or being so cheap it didn't matter), to essentially producing zero income while resource usage leapt up in magnitudes

I couldn't justify the stress and hassle of making sites, that a few dozen people a day might find useful, into some complex hyperscalable obligations just to feed the bots

the Tesla standard is 5 seconds, NHTSA says 30 seconds

Luckily, none of the Tesla data is available because they're currently getting away with redacting so much in their reports they're essentially useless

Complete coincidence that Elon cut the funding for the department that was investigating Tesla: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/10/nhtsas-self-driving-safety...

I expect a flavor of affiliate marketing where you can never trust if the LLM is giving you the best recommendations or the most highly bidded recommendations

"Since we're on the topic of DIY car repairs, did you know Autozone carries a wide variety blorpity slop?"

The proposed build out will consume 9gw of electricity, all LNG fueled

The entire State of Utah, *combined* consumes less than half that much energy.

for my experience currently, I greatly prefer the VSCode Copilot extension experience over the Claude Extension

I think VSCode only supports copilot for "autocomplete" too

on top of that, you need GitHub Copilot for the PR reviewer functionality in GitHub

Huh, I find my copilot plugin to be so incredibly glitchy. My agents are always reporting that their shells are mangled that commands are truncated and all kinds of nonsense. Sometimes they spin up dev servers fine other times it just hangs waiting for a terminal response. So far I have found relying on the CLI from the model providers to be significantly more reliable.

I do like the integrations with the IDE however, they are convenient for rapidly reviewing changes. I just need their terminals to actually work!

I had this problem and it turns out it was my oh-my-posh command prompt customization. VS Code injects certain control characters into the output stream for agents to observe events and the theming runs after those mechanics are hooked up so it can interfere. Updating to the latest oh-my-posh fixed it for me.

Here's the oh-my-posh GH issue[0] in case your problem is similar but not solvable with a simple package update.

[0]: https://github.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/issues/7029

Ive also had huge problems with copilot and terminals, mostly due to corporate antivirus which makes it impossible to install clink for example. So the Shell integration never really worked. It has been fixed for a couple of months though now, and its working, maybe not great but at least very good.

The only sad thing is trying to use tools in a VS developer prompt (and how could this not have been fixed ages ago, its literall YOUR OWN flagship product). It knows how to launch the .cmd for it, but thats incredibly slow for single commands. Would be nice if I could tell it to just use an open terminal.

I have the same problem with zsh + powerlevel10k

but surely the issue is on VS Code side, to do things in a way that work with people's shells as they are

other agent harnesses don't have the same problems with my shell

You can use Copilot extension with OpenRouter (among others).

And yes, I need to find a solution for autocomplete. It used to be available in free tier of Copilot. Not sure anymore.