This will be the new normal as all human “engineers” from staff to seniors are now down levelled to interns and junior engineers when using AI; unable to understand what they are doing and pushing broken updates like this into production with “agents”.
Better not blame Claude on this outage.
Why is it that iOS is crashing but not Android?
Google should know better to not have such an incident like this as the Firebase SDK runs on millions of apps.
If you did not implement a fall back mechanism, perhaps you based your testing assumptions on that “Firebase could never crash my app” which is now false.
Why didn't testing catch this? Why was there no canary? How come alarms didn't wake up an on call as soon as the call-volume on the backend dropped? Why was this update rolled out to every customer at once, instead of gradually?
Users who will forget about it, and due to inertia stay on your platform.
i've also heard "the prompt is the only thing that should be reviewed"