Somehow, everyone has forgotten the terrible code quality that existed prior to 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjZQGRATlwA
Like, come on. Software has been shit for decades. AI hasn't observably reduced the quality of software I use everyday in a way that is meaningfully separable from normal incidents in the past.
> AI hasn't observably reduced the quality of software I use everyday in a way that is meaningfully separable from normal incidents in the past.
Average duration for AWS outages [2] was 1.5 hours per outage, 38 hours total. Most recent AWS outage in 2026 [1] downed AWS for 13 hours, a third of 38 hours spanning an year before, and was caused by AWS LLM coding tool.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/20/amazon-cl...
I have noticed a spike in web apps exhibiting random failures and glitchy behavior over the past few months.