alt Hacker NewsBlaming every downtime on "vibecoding, probably" is so weird and lazy. As if these places never had downtime previously
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Indeed, given that there was a post this spring by ex-Microsoft employee on the poor state of Azure.
"The team had reached a point where it was too risky to make any code refactoring or engineering improvements. I submitted several bug fixes and refactoring, notably using smart pointers, but they were rejected for fear of breaking something."
Sure, those takes are mostly lazy (some of my comments here included TBH). Although I have very weird feeling, that current zeitgeist is about "coding is solved", etc and the same time we have evidence that didn't help much regarding boring thing such as reliability
Trying to control the narrative this way by preemptively talking about vibecoding is so weird and lazy.
Right but according to some here AI is creating vast amounts of high quality code that should have given us 100% uptime in every service
Right?
As opposed to a pile of unmaintainable shit
MSFT stated that they went all in on AI and had a key metric of generating more than a million LOC per developer at MSFT.
Now they have an outage that should honestly result in people going to prison, at some point we have to question leadership's ability to... well lead because unless something drastically changes I don't think society wants to deal with a massive transnational trillion+ corporation with various monopolies that controls many aspects of our lives if they're going to continue to give us shit service.
I'm blaming the enshitification of absolutely everything. AI or not, it's all just become bloated piles of code.
Using AI is lazy. Lazy creators get lazy responses.
Lazy maybe, but not weird at all. Probably true most of the time.