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Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

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Cloudflare, Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud all have a similar uptick in reported errors around 7:30. I suspect an outage on Cloudflare or another load-bearing service cascaded through all the major cloud providers. https://downdetector.com/status/cloudflare/ https://downdetector.com/status/windows-azure/ https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ https://downdetector.com/status/google-cloud/

“load bearing” :) For once it’s appropriately used.

I still winced

Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

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What's the other way it's used?

LLMs (at least Claude) tends to overuse that significantly

Oh, so like "honest" and "ratchet." Oh well, it'll choose different words to overuse later.

Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

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“load bearing” :) For once it’s appropriately used.

It's a good metaphor and I refuse to let AI ruin it for me.

I added a specific rule to disallow saying “load bearing”. So Claude is now saying “load handling”

Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

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post #334

Cloudflare, Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud all have a similar uptick in reported errors around 7:30. I suspect an outage on Cloudflare or another load-bearing service cascaded through all the major cloud providers. https://downdetector.com/status/cloudflare/ https://downdetector.com/status/windows-azure/ https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ https://downdetector.com/status/google-cloud/

Cloudflare CTO claims that it's not them

https://x.com/dok2001/status/2095538619603628388?s=46&t=ec6p...

Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

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But have we found the seams yet though?

If the seams bear too much load, they rip. Whereas pants, they fall down. I'll be honest with you: this is why we need to take a belt-and-suspenders approach.

That's not just an observation, it's an insight. Words are doing the real work.

Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

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“load bearing” :) For once it’s appropriately used.

It's a good metaphor and I refuse to let AI ruin it for me.

Years ago, when I worked at Stripe (which had a somewhat unique and inventive lexicon) it was a common term. “Is this jank load-bearing?” someone might ask.

Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

LLMs (at least Claude) tends to overuse that significantly

Oh, so like "honest" and "ratchet." Oh well, it'll choose different words to overuse later.

honest-load-bearing-ratchet sounds like an instance name.

Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

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Well no one said it yet so I will, "international actors" is at least a possibility. And I don't mean any specific country because pretty much anyone is a potential these days, which makes it a perfect cover for different anyones. Demonstrating vulnerability in the US's AI boom can move the markets. That's a financial incentive and a strong geopolitical one. More likely just cascading overload though: "Never attribut…

> cascading overload I'd bet more on this. For one none of the coding tools have exponential backoff on retries

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