In a future where Claude and ChatGPT agents automate all aspects of society, that triggers a cascade of real world consequences where everything keeps running as if the new model is released, except the vibe coded upgrade procedure fails to do a staged rollout, taking down the entire agent infrastructure when they try to upgrade to a nonexistent model all at once.

The Machine Stops [0] [1] [2] comes to mind.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops

[1]: https://archive.org/details/themachinestops_1411_librivox

[2]: https://manybooks.net/titles/forstereother07machine_stops.ht...