And they are offshoring roles to lower quality devs.
Interestingly, chatgpt was unavailable due to the same cloudflare outage.
Imagine vibe coding something in production, it breaks half the internet, then you can't vibe code it back because it broke the LLM providers. A real catch-22 for the modern age!
By similar thinking, you could blame large tech companies if they hired too many juniors.
Juniors, at least, have the capacity to learn.
That does seem to be a coincidence, as the recent outages making headlines (including this one according to early reports) have been associated with huge traffic spikes. It seems DDoS are reaching a new level.
AWS's most recent blow-up was not a DDoS
Maybe a laid-off engineer is bored and started orchestrating DDoS campaigns in their newly-found free time.