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> Yet the software industry is plowing ahead, reportedly pushing mountains of unreviewed code to Prod, and the world hasn't ended.

Yes, this has gone so well

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It really has. All of the places facing an unusually high outage rate are places that have seen huge growth in their service usage (Anthropic, GitHub, etc) which is to be expected. The rest of the world has been happily chugging along with coding agents for almost a year now and things seem to still be working just fine.

> All of the places facing an unusually high outage rate are places that have seen huge growth in their service usage (Anthropic, GitHub, etc) which is to be expected.

That's not true, many of these outages have been directly attributed to AI tooling.

> The rest of the world has been happily chugging along with coding agents for almost a year now and things seem to still be working just fine.

Many more services are now being attacked by AI agents that originate from all kinds of organizations including OpenAI, Anthropic, and many others. Unless you're purposefully being obtuse, I would not call that "working just fine".

So far for most organizations and services other than the ones I mentioned reliability has been the same this year as it was before. So I call that "working just fine".

How many major companies are pushing unreviewed code to prod? Seems like mostly an early stage startup thing and their bugs and outages aren’t going to make the news. I’m skeptical that even a majority of Anthropic and GitHub’s code new code this year was unreviewed.

Claude Code is entirely vibe coded and while earlier this year you could see the vibe coding leaking though lately that’s been much less the case.

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