Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? by Pseudocrat on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @04:21PM (#49352106)

I mean they may be working around the clock, but after 5 or 6 layoffs in 3 years… half their engineers are probably still learning the code base.

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Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? by dgellow on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @06:42PM (#49353841)

I don’t think their engineers « learn the codebase » anymore, that’s so 2025. It’s all agentic now, the model learns the codebase, the engineer ask the agents to do their best and believe in themselves

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Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? by fg137 on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @06:37AM (#49359636)

Which is why my colleague pushed fix after fix but still failed at addressing the root cause of a bug. Turns out outsourcing all your thinking to a machine that doesn't truly understand your system yet hallucinates isn't going to work.

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Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? by owebmaster on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @01:27PM (#49364508)

Missing the /s?

This behavior is what led them to the current situation and will only get worse.

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Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? by dgellow on Thursday August 20, 2026 @05:38AM (#49372383)

I want to say it’s sarcastic, but it’s actually what people are doing IRL!

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Re:Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? by a2ff6eeb0 on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @04:33PM (#49352286)

Yeah, and the rest are probably not quite so invested.

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