I understand it's a joke, but really isnt the entire point of git is to be able to work locally as much as you want without affecting the remote repo and vice versa

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 15 points 1 hour ago

Git allows me to write code as much as I want. But GitHub does more than just Git. If you don’t remember the details of the next task you need to work on and GitHub is down, that’s a problem. As a senior I spend a lot of time reviewing PRs. That’s considerably harder when GitHub is down.

[–] Pencilnoob@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

It's possible to design your devex to require an unreliable SAAS vendor for even basic tasks! If you try hard enough you can logjam your entire team!