monkaiju (u/monkaiju)

monkaiju commented on Another GitHub outage in the same day githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/Nezteb

Does redundancy even matter if the end result is still poorer uptime?

monkaiju · 7 hours ago

Exactly! Also operating "at scale" is only impressive if you can do it with comparable speed and uptime, it doesn't mean much if every page takes seconds to load and it falls over multiple times a day lol

monkaiju commented on Another GitHub outage in the same day githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/Nezteb

sisve · 7 hours ago

I moved everything on github to a self hosted foregjo instanse some days ago. I really did not do anything. Created some tokens so that CC could access github and forgejo and my dns API. Self hosting is so much simpler and easier with AI. Expect more people to self host small to medium stuff.

monkaiju · 7 hours ago

Ironic that that same AI you're mentioning is probably a large part of why this class of outages are increasing. Id highly recommend folks understand their infrastructure enough to setup/run it without AI before they put anything critical on it.

monkaiju commented on Another GitHub outage in the same day githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/Nezteb

dec0dedab0de · 8 hours ago

I still say that mixing CI/CD with code/version control hosting is a mistake.

At it's absolute best, everything just works silently, and you now have vendor lock-in with whichever proprietary system you chose.

Switching git hosting providers should be as easy as changing your remotes and pushing. Though now a days that requires finding solutions for the MR/PR process, and the wiki, and all the extra things your team might have grown to rely on. As always, the bundle is a trap.

monkaiju · 7 hours ago

I mean, not necessarily proprietary right? There are OSS solutions like forgejo that make it pretty simple, at least as simple as running a git system and a standalone CI system

monkaiju commented on Another GitHub outage in the same day githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/Nezteb

betaby · 9 hours ago

Self hosted GitLab is absolutely worth it.

monkaiju · 9 hours ago

or forgejo!

monkaiju commented on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

int_19h · 2 days ago

What products and what models have you tried?

monkaiju · a day ago

I couldn't tell you because I've kept it at arms length but over the last year our most enthusiastic "AI guy" (as well as another AI-user on the team) has churned through quite a few, usually saying something like "$NEW_MODEL is much better!" before littering garbage PRs all over the project.

monkaiju commented on GitHub Agentic Workflows github.github.io/gh-aw/... · Posted by u/mooreds

monkaiju · a day ago

Wasnt GitHub supposed to be doing a feature freeze while they move to Azure?(1) They certainly could use it as their stability has plummeted. After moving to a self-hosted Forgejo I'll never go back. My UI is instant, my actions are faster than they ever were on GH (with or without accelerators like Blacksmith.sh), I dont constantly get AI nonsense crammed into my UI, and I have way better uptime all with almost no maintenance (mostly thanks to uCore)...

GH just doesnt really have much a value proposition for anything that isnt a non-trivial, star gathering obsessed, project IMO...

1: https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...

Edit: typo

monkaiju commented on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

marcyb5st · 2 days ago

I am more afraid if AI will actually deliver what CEOs are touting. People that are now working will be unemployable and will have to pivot to something else, overcrowding these other sectors and driving wages down.

If that comes to pass you will work the same or more for less money than now.

Basically jump back to a true plutocracy since only a few people will syphon the wealth generated by AI and that wealth will give them substantial temporal power.

monkaiju · 2 days ago

I mean, I just dont see any evidence of that happening. TBF I'm a SWE so I can only speak to that segment, but its literally worse than useless for working with anything software related thats non-trivial...

monkaiju commented on The Cults of TDD and GenAI drewdevault.com/2026/01/2... · Posted by u/ingve

gassi · 12 days ago

> A coding agent allows one to feel the raw productive power a great programmer can tap into. It allows one to feel like the “10× programmers” they’ve sat next to in the open office for ten years, whose skills they never quite achieved themselves.

I fear this is the trap that most "new" developers will fall into over the next few years. I'm also worried the "great programmer" will cease to exist as the current greats retire, and the potential greats will never reach that level due to their reliance on LLMs.

monkaiju · 11 days ago

I mean, Im 10ish years in, so probably have another couple decades at least, and I never use AI assistants for anything. Also one of the two highest performing team members, and the other doesn't use it either.

Its a great time to be a non-AI user, and even better to have never been one, because its easier now than ever to differentiate oneself from those who are reliant on it and, over the long run, much less effective because of it.

monkaiju commented on Show HN: A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending github.com/jmuncor/sherlo... · Posted by u/jmuncor

catlifeonmars · 12 days ago

This tool looks like it unconditionally disables tls verification for upstream requests.

It shells out to mitmproxy with "--set", "ssl_insecure=true"

This took all of 5 minutes to find reading through main.py on my phone.

https://github.com/jmuncor/sherlock/blob/fb76605fabbda351828...

Edit: In case it’s not clear, you should not use this.

monkaiju · 12 days ago

And it's already surpassed my most starred project when it was on GitHub, all the more validating to have moved it to forgejo. If vibecoded stuff with unbelievable security vulns can get so much praise the whole star system doesn't work as a quality filter. Similarly a well crafted README used to help reflect quality, no longer...

monkaiju commented on Jellyfin LLM/"AI" Development Policy jellyfin.org/docs/general... · Posted by u/mmoogle

fn-mote · 12 days ago

> Should just be an instant perma-ban (along with closure, obviously).

This is the internet. Real offenders will just submit the next PR with a new alt account.

monkaiju · 12 days ago

its still an added inconvenience and means they cant use AI to farm reputation on a single account