Comment by Anon1096
16 hours ago
No it's because lots of stuff is duct taped together and then you have tons of scripts or tooling that was someone's weekend project (to make their oncall burden easier) that they shared around. Usually there'll be a flag like --clowntown or --clowny-xyz when it's obvious to all parties involved that it's destined to destroy everything one day but YOLO (also a common one).
Maybe the AI hype is a misdirect so we will blame LLMs for future tech failures instead of the engineers who built up these services