It depends what it is! GitHub is basically infrastructure so yes.. but I'll take the tradeoff with chat gpt

Totally agree. GitHub is definitely a more core service that more people rely on than ChatGPT (plus if you're like me you just use Claude until they fix the issue).

Most people don’t rely on ChatGPT for production work flows like they do for GitHub. Of course users are going to have different expectations for different services.

That's because GitHub haven't really innovated in years.

They have some good icing (actions is pretty good) but the cake is still just a boxed cake mix from 2010.

Maybe you would see these comments if github actually innovated fast. They could make a search that finds what you are looking for, for instance.

GitHub is down all the time. Especially actions.

Well, the problem with those 3 examples is I think they all basically do most of what people want from them already, so if they don't change that is mostly fine. Stability is more important for their users.

ChatGPT on the other hand, isn't finished baking yet, and all the companies that are building a product on top of it are doing it because they expect more, and they expect more on a VC startup timetable, which means quickly.

Edit: and, you know, given how new the space is, there is a relative dearth of companies who have integrated ChatGPT in mission-critical ways that can't withstand an API service disruption or two.

> If this was GitHub

But it isn't.