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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/
Yes, but is it a load-bearing seam?
Claude is flakey atm too, as is Grok. I wonder if one LLM going down causes a surge in traffic to the others. https://status.claude.com/ Via Grok web UI, I was seeing this mid-request: > Grok has been disconnected. Please try reconnecting.
Traffic surges shouldn't result in 404s, though. IME it's probably DNS. It's almost always DNS.
Oh the humanity (and the Humanities)!
Spare a thought for all those college students scrambling to write their essays by hand. Oh the humanity (and the Humanities)!
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