GitHub suffered a site-wide outage on September 13 after an internal data-cleanup job saturated the primary node of a shared database cluster that stores permission data read on nearly every authentic…
Boris Tane, founder of Polylane, argues in a blog post that AI agents should serve as first responders for on-call work, escalating to humans only when they encounter novel problems, a shift he believ…
Software engineer Reginald Braithwaite's sarcastic post about LLM-written incident reports highlights a growing concern in the tech industry. The author argues that using LLMs to generate incident rep…
A software developer admits to an irrational aversion to reading text they suspect was generated by artificial intelligence, despite acknowledging that AI-generated content can be informative and that…
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has publicly stated the company is reducing middle managers because AI enables larger spans of control, while Meta has similarly eliminated managers in recent layoffs. As…
A PocketOS founder’s account of an AI agent destroying production data has sparked widespread online ridicule, with observers dismissing the company as incompetent. This reaction exemplifies "distanci…
Anthropic's Claude Code service suffered a 90-minute outage on Tuesday, reducing its uptime to just one nine over the past 60 days. Meanwhile, GitHub CTO Vlad Fedorov published a second blog post in s…