GitHub usually says it's because of the increased demand from AI. I didn't believe it until I saw the numbers: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17...

Basically yes, that's modern day cloud native large scale scalable software. Many smaller software components working together, and sometimes you get a perfect storm of issues or a single point of failure (like DNS) that fails.

Sort of.

It's on Microsoft Azure.

Anything people are building with agentic coding could be called a "house of cards."

It should not surprise people when things start collapsing when there have been little falsehoods and random bits of senseless codes written by agents all over the place.