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Comment by AsmaraHolding

4 hours ago

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.

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.

  • The "vibe thinking" trend where people stop using their brain and rely on whatever random output the LLM tells them is harder to diagnose, but it's certainly there and at least as bad as vibe coding.

    • What about the “vibe thinking” trend where people project their own narratives on to every situation, even if the information available shows that it’s a rise in large scale DDoS attacks?

  • How likely are we to know when a "misconfiguration or networking fuckup" is due to someone asking ChatGPT how to do the task?

  • >misconfigurations and networking fuckups that existed since Internet became more complex than 3 routers.

    Yet there has been an uptick in frequency of outages only in the recent few months. Correlation correlation.

    Why assume that these misconfigs are not the result of someone asking AI how to do them?

    • Is it a statistically significant uptick though? Random events doesn't mean equally spaced, sometimes there will be more, sometimes there will be less

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

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> 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.