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by rvz 944 days ago
If this was GitHub (or even X or Threads) that went down, you would never see a comment like this:

"As a paid GitHub user for many months now I’m glad they move so fast making the service better. I happily take that over a slowly improving but always reliable service. Let reliability come later. For now it’s great they move fast even at the cost of service disruption."

No user accepts frequent service disruption. Especially GitHub which falls over more times than X or Threads.
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roland35 944 days ago
It depends what it is! GitHub is basically infrastructure so yes.. but I'll take the tradeoff with chat gpt
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boh 944 days ago
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).
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superturkey650 944 days ago
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.
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mhh__ 944 days ago
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.

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lovasoa 944 days ago
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.
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throwaway5959 944 days ago
GitHub is down all the time. Especially actions.
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pyrophane 944 days ago
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.

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ps256 944 days ago
> If this was GitHub

But it isn't.

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