“Microsoft has made clear that ADO is on life support, and are slowly stripping features out like public repos.I look forward to when GitHub Actions has feature parity with Azure Pipelines.”
“GitHub is going the wrong way, but there really is nothing workable for open-source projects except GitHub. I don’t want to register on all these random GitHub killers just to open an issue or PR in a random project I’ve interacted with.For personal or team setups, any third-party service will work well.”
“It's sad that Forgejo went with the actions model from GitHub which introduce a lot of useless complexity. But it seems that Woodpecker CI [1] could be a good candidate to replace GitLab CI, as it uses very similar concepts and workflow description files.[1] https://woodpecker-ci.org/”
“If you're not writing code I don't know if Github is the best approach to getting preview envs. I think there are services that will do that for you though because at that point you're basically just cloning a WordPress site and putting it somewhere else.”
“I agree with the sentiment of the post, and Github deserves every bit of it. Tried codeberg (which uses forgejo) and I am very happy with it personally.”
“IME switching git providers is very hard, especially getting off of github. Most companies have insane numbers of integrations, automations, etc on top of GH. So yeah, its on us, but its also pretty simple algebra: does GH's downtime affect us more than the cost of switching?”
“I’d test the economics before the plumbing. Putting Power Automate between the agents may change the invocation path, but it won’t necessarily reduce the GitHub Copilot agent’s metered work. You may simply add flow runs, latency, authentication and another failure boundary.”
“At work i have to use Claude via copilot, all code must be stored in github, i have been usig vscode like (at home i used vscode with the anthropic chat plugin and a max plan for last 9mo)”
“Unclear whether the billing changes in the "Upcoming changes to GitHub Copilot policies and billing" blog post applies to enterprises paying via Azure”
“The answer's hiding in the setting name: execute mode runs through its own subagent with its own key, and that's why the exploreAgent/implementAgent settings you edited never touched those calls. `github.copilot.chat.executionSubagent.model` controls the flash calls you keep seeing.”
“The reason Github actions keep going down is because Github actions are fundamentally flawed and will need to be replaced to keep up with the velocity at which code is changing now. Most people don't cache anything, and even if they did, the model is insufficient to be able to”
“Thanks in advance and shoutout to the VSCode and Github copilot team - great job guys it's a good product and on its way to being a better one :) Take care!”
“Playing around with GitHub Codespaces as a lab environment for my workshops. Works very well plus it supports the Code marketplace format out of the box.”
“I'd say Cursor is my top pick compared to the others. I use Cursor with the Composer model, and it really does what I need with very minimal post-adjustment. This is especially true when I compare it to other AI agents and tools.”
“My use case is to have a chatbot for Dynamics CRm users so I created a dynamics crm custom mcp and it was able to give me my expected answers and eventually while training it will be fine now my stakeholders want to scale it outside GitHub copilot because not every business owner will have GitHub copilot how can we do that? Any suggestions please?”
“Anybody uses Canvas for anything productive? I saw a YT video of an app built in canvas by burkeholland and was wondering if you guys have anything similar?”
“I am not sure about the biggest repositories in github, but i see some that are now maintained by ai only, their agent md is designed to keep the ai work for weeks, these repos have thousands of commits, many times a day.”
“GitHub’s scaling problem is handling huge numbers of relatively small repos at high concurrency. This is not the same problem as Google, Microsoft, Meta et al who have terabyte-scale monorepos, and all have lazy-load solutions to create virtual clones where only the parts you are working on are loaded onto local disk.”
“> It can't be any worse than current githubYeah, and the grass is always greener somewhere else.The only way to finally end up in a happy state about your git hosting and automated workflows running, is by running the whole shebang yourself. Saves you so much sanity in the long-term, even if starting and scaling is slower.”
“Use BYOK in the GitHub Copilot app to use any model, from any provider! I've loved using this for bringing models from @cerebras, @openrouter, and @lmstudio to supplement what's already available in the app!”
“Our times at GH didn’t overlap much but hearing the fact that he’s working at cursor increases my estimation of their engineering org by leaps and bounds.”