Around the same time, Cloudflare’s chief technology officer Dane Knecht explained that a latent bug was responsible in an apologetic X post.
“In short, a latent bug in a service underpinning our bot mitigation capability started to crash after a routine configuration change we made. That cascaded into a broad degradation to our network and other services. This was not an attack,” Knecht wrote, referring to a bug that went undetected in testing and has not caused a failure.
I wonder if all recent outages aren’t just crappy AI coding
Humans are plenty capable of writing crappy code without needing to blame AI.
Absolutely, but it does feel like things have spiked a bit recently.
Shitty code has been around far longer than AI. I should know, I wrote plenty of it.
But, AI can do the work of 10 of you humans, so it can write 10 times the bugs and deploy them to production 10 times faster. Especially if pesky testers stay out the way instead of finding some of the bugs.
They trained it on the work of people like you.