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dhruv3006@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago

GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?

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GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?

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dhruv3006@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago
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GitHub has been having enough outages lately that people are starting to ask whether it makes sense to look elsewhere. Ever since Github got acquired by ...
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    That’s completely irrational but you do you. Maintaining documentation is one of the best and safest uses for LLMs in coding - devs generally write bad documentation because they don’t want to do it.

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      You say irrational, I say it’s rational not to trust the predictive text on steroids that often just makes shit up.

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        I say irrational because clearly there is a bias here and not an experience being referenced.

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          So you’re saying they never hallucinate? Ever?

          I have evidence to the contrary;

          https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-copilot-election-questions-misinformation-2024-2

          https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/ai-in-customer-service-billion-dollar-mistake-when-deployed-wrong/

          https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2025/10/28/lawyers-ai-hallucinations-chatgpt/

          https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-ai-chatbot-bard-offers-inaccurate-information-company-ad-2023-02-08/

          https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/lawyer-who-cited-cases-concocted-by-ai-asks-judge-spare-sanctions-2023-06-08/

          https://www.envive.ai/post/case-study-of-air-canadas-chatbot

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      Literally just use doxygen. You don’t ever need LLMs for docu.

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        doxygen

        There is zero chance for getting this approved to use in our Enterprise.

        We have an existing tool that can do this without assessing another tool.

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          There is zero chance for a FOSS, offline tool that uses a decades-established formatting and annotation system, but there is 100 dicksuck on AI?

          Wow… get your resume ready to migrate.

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