• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I considered this, but would agents really ask for single commits with such frequency? They tend to get individual files via HTML, or do a git clone if they needed commit history for some reason.

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      3 days ago

      Simple agents won’t understand git. They can make web requests. If they want to check for reference code/source code, I assume they would request the rendered html.

      I assume the frequency comes from many people asking various things, and the agents in the background pulling this data.

      I’m not sure whether the scale-to-load ratio is plausible, because I lack the numbers, but it doesn’t seem implausible to me that various agents for various prompts and tasks from various providers for many people repeatedly make these requests to a degree that significantly impacts the hoster.