GitHub, under an onslaught of machine-written code, is becoming markedly less responsive on standard web tasks such as:
- clicking a link
- scrolling on a page and expecting to see content instead of white space (a test failure, when scrolled up on, takes 15-20s to display *the PR title*)
Lads! Clicking a link is a solved problem. We're very good at it. It doesn't need reinventing under Copilot's rain of turds
Anyway, in no way is this related
Oct 15, 2026, 10:59 AM@rgarner I will be incorporating “rain of turds” into my Listless Language Model 🫡
Oct 15, 2026, 10:55 AM@rgarner on a daily basis, that scrolling into persistent white space is an enthusiasm tax
Ah, I see I misinterpreted this initially.
I made the mistake of assuming you'd meant that GitHub was being relentlessly _scraped_ but I follow now.
As a total random aside that I'll blame on my ADHD, now I wanna know how we fingerprint AI web scrapers.
So...
Thanks, Russell! I'm about to fall down a rabbit hole! <3