Around the same time, Cloudflare’s chief technology officer Dane Knecht explained that a latent bug was responsible in an apologetic X post.
“In short, a latent bug in a service underpinning our bot mitigation capability started to crash after a routine configuration change we made. That cascaded into a broad degradation to our network and other services. This was not an attack,” Knecht wrote, referring to a bug that went undetected in testing and has not caused a failure.
lotta bugs in corpo soft lately
thanks for illustrating the corpo speak
I hope the bug is fine
Nobody ever asks if the bug is ok
Poor guy :(
Blame it on the massive tech sector layoffs
I wonder if all recent outages aren’t just crappy AI coding
Shitty code has been around far longer than AI. I should know, I wrote plenty of it.
Now… I don’t like to brag…
I too have looked at my earliest repos in dispair
They trained it on the work of people like you.
Shame on them. I mark my career by how long it takes me to regret the code I write. When I was a junior, it was often just a month or two. As I seasoned it became maybe as long as two years. Until finally i don’t regret my code, only the exigencies that prevented me from writing better.
The AI was the shitty code we wrote along the way
Humans are plenty capable of writing crappy code without needing to blame AI.
Absolutely, but it does feel like things have spiked a bit recently.
Train on shitty code, get shitty code. Garbage in. Garbage out.
AI coding, AI compiling, AI bug testing, AI users, etc.
Indirectly, this was. He said this was a bug in their recent tool that allows sites to block AI crawlers that caused the outages. It’s a relatively new tool released in the last few months, so it makes sense it might be buggy as the rush to stop the AI DoS attacks has been pertinent.
Why’s he saying it’s not an attack? Sounds like he’s protesting too much.
There’s nothing to be gained from Cloudflare lying about this. It honestly makes them look worse if the outage was caused internally vs if it had been due to an attack
It’s not the first time Cloudflare has shot themselves in the foot.
