And they are offshoring roles to lower quality devs.

Interestingly, chatgpt was unavailable due to the same cloudflare outage.

By similar thinking, you could blame large tech companies if they hired too many juniors.

That does seem to be a coincidence, as the recent outages making headlines (including this one according to early reports) have been associated with huge traffic spikes. It seems DDoS are reaching a new level.

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So true. AWS for example gives only platform credits in the event of an outage. Basically no recourse or insurance.

None of the recent major outages were traced down to "vibe coding" or anything of the sort. They appear to be the kind of misconfigurations and networking fuckups that existed since Internet became more complex than 3 routers.

Speaking of "vibe-coding", I wonder how much their own outage is affecting their ability to vibe-code their way out of it.. :-)

The openai login page says:

    Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed.

> Some of the other commenters here have posited a "vibe code theory". As the amount of vibe code in production increases, so does the number of bugs and, therefore, the number of outages.

Likely this coupled with the mass brain damage caused by never-ending COVID re-infections.

Since vaccines don't prevent transmission, and each re-infection increases the chances of long COVID complications, the only real protection right now is wearing a proper respirator everywhere you go, and basically nobody is doing that anymore.

What's different about this Q4 vs the last 20 years of Q4s?

The obvious answer is to cancel holidays.

There are usually very comprehensive post mortems for these events, and none have suggested that at all

This only amplifies the often-repeated propaganda about the "very powerful" enemies of democracy, who in fact are very fragile dictatorships. There's enough incompetence at tech companies to f up their own stuff.

My theory is DNS.

Yeah, but that's just standard for Azure.