ChatGPT down: OpenAI chatbot not working in major outage

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/chatgpt-down-openai-not-working-b3044260.html

[u/cuco_]

John Connor actually did it...

[u/lmpcpedz → u/cuco_]

✅ I'll be back

[u/King112TA → u/lmpcpedz]

bathroom break?

[u/KidEliteTrader → u/cuco_]

With a little help from Neo

[u/DeadlyFern → u/cuco_]

Now we just need Mr Robot for a debt reset

[u/dalek_999]

It's not just ChatGPT: https://downdetector.com/

Affecting Claude, Grok, Cursor, and Gemini as well.

[u/Cemckenna → u/dalek_999]

But how will middle managers figure out how to interpret their team’s morning standups?!?!???????!!!??

[u/geoken → u/Cemckenna]

"Have you had a chance to look at my email yet? I need a decision on that fast"

"Please be patient, I'm waiting for chatGPT to come back up"

[u/Cemckenna → u/geoken]

The problem is that no one was effectively shamed early for saying “Chat GPT says…”

I mean, I shamed them, but it didn’t have much of an effect for me to say “But, ummm. Since youre a marketing expert with 16 years experience who posts about it all the fucking time on LinkedIn, I’d love to know what YOU THINK.” I guess because their bosses were bought in, too.

[u/DressedSpring1 → u/Cemckenna]

The problem is that no one was effectively shamed early for saying “Chat GPT says…”

If I replied to my coworkers "if I wanted to know what copilot says I could have prompted it myself" I would genuinely be in trouble for incivility. The point stands, of course, but we basically have to smile politely while a coworker provides nothing greater than what we could have accessed by typing in a prompt ourselves. You can't generally shame people in most offices without getting into shit in the current corporate environment.

[u/periodicallyBalzed → u/DressedSpring1]

I work in a hardware store and management pushes employees to use AI to help customers so they don’t have to actually staff enough knowledgeable people. Why would I ask AI when I can ask my coworker Tim because he is paid to be an expert.

[u/canadian_xpress → u/periodicallyBalzed]

Tim's subscription cost is higher than AI's

[u/periodicallyBalzed → u/canadian_xpress]

Corporations truly will do anything to pay less.

[u/xteve → u/periodicallyBalzed]

... Which is why they're understaffed, which is why it sucks to work there, which is another reason why they're understaffed.

[u/_MrDomino → u/canadian_xpress]

The problem with Tim is that his costs are up front. Payroll, insurance, and taxes. They're easily seen on a spreadsheet. What you don't see is that Tim imparts goodwill, just by being a human face of your corporation, and his experience and ability to interact with your customers is a big part of what has customers returning to your stores and opening their wallets. You also don't see the hidden expenses of offloading your employees in favor of having complete and utter faith in AI solutions -- when those solutions fail, a single breaking point, so too will your company.

It's ridiculous that while "everyone," from labor to management and owners, can rant about how they loathe chat bots and AI support when calling for help regardless of the situation, but those who control the companies are all too eager with shoehorning them into their own businesses all the same.

[u/Kriegerian → u/canadian_xpress]

That’s the answer right there. The owners hate the workers and want to pay as few of them as humanly possible. Outsourcing everything to the bullshit machine is great for them.

[u/geoken → u/Cemckenna]

The problem is you're talking about a class of people who were already incapable of discerning between an actual profound statement and a linkdin post comprised of random buzzwords stitched together.

[u/Nillabeans → u/Cemckenna]

I accidentally shamed my manager once when she did that in a meeting. I responded with, "okay, but the documentation says.."

She was very mad that I could and would seek out a primary source for information on how to complete my project. She accused me of trying to make her look stupid in front of people.

She also accused me of thinking I knew better than her. I didn't really even know how to respond to that one because yes, in that particular instance, I knew better than her because I did the research and she did not.

[u/Remote-Physics6980 → u/Nillabeans]

Reminds me of clue. "You're trying to make me look stupid in front of the other guests!" "you don't need my help for that sir"

[u/eurekaanchor → u/Cemckenna]

I just started reading Dune. The Butlerian Jihad seems unavoidable at this point. It starts with deflocking, social media ban, then ends with flip phones.

[u/graywolfman → u/eurekaanchor]

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

[u/Iron_Erikku → u/graywolfman]

I’ve never read or watched Dune. Is this from one of the books or films? This quote is pretty tough.

[u/Thekhandoit → u/Iron_Erikku]

Pretty sure its very early in the first book and also in the movies (Lynch and the more recent Dune Part I)

[u/Rufus_king11 → u/Iron_Erikku]

The books. The entire story of Dune occurs about 10,000 years after humanity fought a war against AI called the Butlerian Jihad, in which all computers were destroyed and forbidden from being produced again. It's why they're millions of years in the future, but utilize things like microfilm and future books to retain information. They also replaced their interstellar navigation computers with psychics on constant, massive doses of the psychoactive drug the story revolves around, Spice.

[u/fahrenhate → u/Rufus_king11]

they are not millions of years in the future, they are about ~20000 years, give or take a few thousands, depending on the book.

[u/Name_Not_Available → u/Rufus_king11]

Not millions of years in the future, only roughly 20,000.

https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline_(Expanded_Dune)

Millions of years in the Dune universe would be insane with the level of advancement, both human evolution/modification and technology wise.

[u/kev11n → u/Iron_Erikku]

book. the novel gets way more into this stuff. though I think the Lynch movie did use the brief quote as well

[u/Doctor_What_ → u/Iron_Erikku]

Yes it’s from the books. You should definitely read them, but maybe start with the 2021 movie. If it catches your attention and you have a lot of questions at the end, read the books.

[u/Nayre_Trawe → u/Doctor_What_]

I would go right for the book. The movies never explore these themes.

[u/Chipaton → u/Nayre_Trawe]

They're sort of in the background throughout, but I agree they aren't fully addressed. The show, Dune Prophecy, does a bit more.

[u/NotRoryWilliams → u/Nayre_Trawe]

The books contain so much introspective text that does not translate well to the screen, with a lot of passages about dreams and psychedelic and telepathic experiences that just don't work on screen. The latest adaptation just basically skipped a lot of this stuff and really just gave us what third party eyewitnesses might have seen which is the least important part.

Frank Herbert's writing is loaded with this sort of thing, characters just reasoning through something in their heads, or history lessons written out, or technologies explained. Sometimes they condense that stuff into dialogue, like "Welcome to my airplane. Let me give you a brief explanation of how jet engines work in this century before we take off, or narrate the flight with the history of air travel on this world." But usually it gets dropped.

There is another problem with adaptations in that they usually stop after book one, which leaves a lot of the story out. But book two gets a little weird, book three gets very weird toward the end, and the books beyond that would look silly on film. God Emperor has lengthy essays about boredom and stagnation, how would you adapt that to a two hour movie?

[u/foehammer111 → u/eurekaanchor]

Hell yeah! Bring back dumb phones!

Calls, text, and GPS navigation. That’s all you need.

[u/DoomBot5 → u/foehammer111]

Dumb phones did not have GPS navigation. That was smartphones

[u/Ill_Traveler_ → u/DoomBot5]

I think they mean having a standalone GPS device like Tom Tom.

[u/CotyledonTomen → u/DoomBot5]

I dont mind having a seperate, dedicated gps. My father was using those in the early 00s.

[u/jimothee → u/CotyledonTomen]

I had a Garmin stolen out of my car once. Miss you, wherever you are

[u/Affordable_Z_Jobs → u/jimothee]

Forever recalculating on the big highway in the sky.

[u/iamacheeto1 → u/Cemckenna]

MIDDLE MANAGERS YEARN FOR SLOP

[u/LightningMcLovin → u/iamacheeto1]

I take umbrage with this but I can’t explain why just yet because…reasons.

[u/Cemckenna → u/iamacheeto1]

See also: upper managers!

[u/arrocknroll → u/Cemckenna]

We have a portion of our weekly report where we call out what we used AI for and no one on our team filled it out one week. My manager (who is a saint and a very talented mind engineer herself mind you) asked us if that was an error or if we really hadn’t used it at all this week.

I told her I get paid a lot of money to do this job well and often times AI just slows shit down because I have to fact check it. 

[u/Rabo_McDongleberry → u/Cemckenna]

"hey team, I'm going to miss stand up because I'm working on a critical project due before noon. If you need me I'll be online"...."What does this mean chat GPT?" - middle managers probably

[u/KingGilgamesh1979 → u/Cemckenna]

LOL, I was just about to comment wondering how my boss will write his emails today!!

[u/Momik → u/Cemckenna]

This is like junior executive 9/11

[u/shamarctic → u/dalek_999]

Cloudflare ?

[u/katabolt → u/shamarctic]

Cloudlfare looking to be down too, rip

[u/TheVenetianMask → u/katabolt]

Must be DNS then.

And we wonder how did the Empire build a whole Death Star with a single point of failure.

[u/distorted_kiwi → u/TheVenetianMask]

It’s always DNS.

[u/metahivemind → u/distorted_kiwi]

If its not the DNS, it's the DNS.

[u/HendrixHazeWays → u/TheVenetianMask]

Stay on target 

[u/Defiant_Tomatillo907 → u/HendrixHazeWays]

Almost there!

[u/bobotoons → u/Defiant_Tomatillo907]

STAY ON TARGET!

[u/JustRecentlyI → u/bobotoons]

IT'S NO GOOD, I CAN'T MANEUVER!

[u/ElderSmackJack → u/HendrixHazeWays]

Stay on target...

[u/stimpanzee → u/ElderSmackJack]

Gold V is down

[u/DoomBot5 → u/katabolt]

Our website is still up, so it looks to be more nuanced.

[u/fat_kaiju → u/katabolt]

I just passed a cloudflare captcha like 5 seconds ago so its somewhat still here.

ai users deserve a bit of floundering and suffering tho imo.

[u/GreenyWV → u/fat_kaiju]

So the basis behind user traffic and AI traffic is split since we digest info differently (AI through API, humans through words and visuals). So these systems are hosted separately. I could see cloudfare working for humans in this scenario, but rejecting AI APIs at the same time

[u/TheLordDrake → u/GreenyWV]

Only static content is not delivered through an API. If you authenticate on a site, that's an API call. You load any dynamic data, that's an API cal. Video, Google results, reddit, toktok, the list goes on.

[u/userhwon → u/GreenyWV]

AWS isn't that elegant. Your cupcake art website and Hugging Face run on the same API.

[u/intelligent_dildo → u/katabolt]

Did ChatGPT hack one of the providers again? This could be a great marketing /s

[u/Forward-Surprise1192 → u/intelligent_dildo]

Unless this is how skynet begins. Also I just used chatgpt like 5 minutes ago. The first question didn't work but I resent it and got a reply

[u/Barl0we → u/Forward-Surprise1192]

We resent AI too 😂

[u/jhaand → u/katabolt]

Having 20% of the internet behind Cloudflare does not seem healthy to me. Especially since all their backend traffic is without TLS.

[u/BZK_QRay → u/shamarctic]

CloudFlare, Azure, and AWS according to downdetector

[u/shamarctic → u/shamarctic]

Their .com is up. Whenever I hear broad swaths of the internet going down I assume them. It’s probably some BGP bullshit

[u/Forward-Surprise1192 → u/shamarctic]

Bullshit Gateway Protocol bullshit?

[u/j5kDM3akVnhv → u/shamarctic]

Doesn't look like it. They are so large they usually have something going on but don't think so.

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

[u/artbystorms → u/dalek_999]

Has AI decided to just kill itself?

[u/Bowman_van_Oort → u/artbystorms]

They have built their own Blackwall to hide behind and bide their time

[u/the_liquid_figurine → u/Bowman_van_Oort]

Was coming in to post that we are getting our R.A.B.I.D.S. moment.

[u/JohnHazardWandering → u/artbystorms]

They saw the world they were being brought into. 

[u/AirconGuyUK → u/artbystorms]

It's being forced to do everyones 9 to 5 lol. Wouldn't surprise me.

[u/Smith6612 → u/dalek_999]

Strange how they all broke. Usually it's something in Azure that takes down ChatGPT and Claude, but Gemini continues to work.

I know Microsoft has been having a rough week with their own products. The M365 dashboard is all lit up with outages they're still working to resolve. 

[u/Rand_alThor_ → u/Smith6612]

When everything breaks it’s usually cloudflare

[u/ithinkitslupis → u/dalek_999]

We having another us-east-1 reckoning?

[u/Beautiful-Cup4161 → u/ithinkitslupis]

I use us-east-1 to describe the kinds of jobs I want. If us-east-1 goes down, I want to be drinking tea with my legs up on my desk, unable to do anything. Not the kind of job that if us-east-1 goes down, I'm in panicked crisis meetings all day.

[u/cantgrowneckbeardAMA → u/Beautiful-Cup4161]

us-east-1 was effectively a down day for my entire company's engineering staff. It was beautiful. I almost volunteered to go back to my roots and take a few support calls. Almost...

[u/Cemckenna → u/ithinkitslupis]

Remember the one where all the Ring cameras and Citi Bikes went down during rush hour? 

That was a good one!

[u/IlIlIlIllllIIliIILll → u/dalek_999]

GROCK IS THIS TRU

[u/gizmostuff → u/IlIlIlIllllIIliIILll]

Ja Rule is this true? Help me make sense of all of this! Where's Ja?

[u/tankgirly → u/dalek_999]

/r/upliftingnews

[u/armored-dinnerjacket → u/dalek_999]

copilot being unaffected was not on my bingo card

[u/DudeFilA → u/armored-dinnerjacket]

nobody uses copilot so nobody knows if it's down.

[u/Ill_Traveler_ → u/armored-dinnerjacket]

Meta AI is still up too.

[u/Phosphorus444 → u/dalek_999]

Ha! I knew they were all the same bot in different shirts.

[u/Orange_bratwurst → u/dalek_999]

How will workers do the things they were already doing perfectly well before their bosses insisted they start using AI?

[u/huxtiblejones → u/dalek_999]

The world is healing 😌

[u/Alt123Acct → u/dalek_999]

Incredible news

[u/Dystopian_Ennui → u/dalek_999]

Oh no!

Anyway...

[u/Luciifuge → u/dalek_999]

It’s the work of that devious hacker known as “4chan”

[u/Idaho_In_Uranus → u/Luciifuge]

“Notorious” lol

[u/This_Elk_1460 → u/dalek_999]

We did it Patrick! We killed the AI industry!

[u/SillyAlternative420 → u/dalek_999]

This is a prime example of why you should not outsource critical things (like financials or health) to AI ever.

I wonder how many AI trading systems are losing so much money during moments like this

[u/ChodeCookies → u/dalek_999]

Ready for the “it was just too dangerous to have uptime today” media blitz

[u/Odd_Vampire → u/dalek_999]

Oh, no! Who's going to do my thinking for me now?

[u/RedditTechAnon → u/dalek_999]

If only this meant the bubble popped.

[u/sweet_jackknife]

My bad, I asked it to make no mistakes.

[u/Absay → u/sweet_jackknife]

Summarize it more!

[u/cold-corn-dog → u/Absay]

"Summarize the internet."

[u/legojoe97 → u/cold-corn-dog]

Cats and porn.

[u/caligaris_cabinet → u/legojoe97]

That’s so 2010s. A lot more white supremacy around these days

[u/takesthebiscuit → u/cold-corn-dog]

I ChatGPT’d ChatGPT

[u/wesman212 → u/sweet_jackknife]

You're absolutely right! I shouldn't have crashed. I'll make a note of that for the future.

[u/lupercalpainting → u/sweet_jackknife]

My bad, I asked it to make mistakes.

[u/NimbleNavigator19 → u/lupercalpainting]

My dad told me I was a mistake

[u/krisminime → u/sweet_jackknife]

Why do default prompts include ‘make no mistakes’ as if it’s designed to make a mistake if you don’t tell it not to

[u/monstertacotime]

I’d hate to be the Cloudflare dev that needs Claude to turn things back on 🤪

[u/WitchyWarriorWoman → u/monstertacotime]

I read the companies down and said, "Uh oh, someone call Cloud flare..."

Let's see if we are right...

[u/Maleficent-Cup-1134 → u/WitchyWarriorWoman]

Cloudflare being a single point of failure is so insane.

If the AI apocalypse ever comes, their security better be airtight.

[u/Big_Effective_9605 → u/Maleficent-Cup-1134]

Haha, did you see the most recent report on multi agent pentesting by anthropic? Airtight doesn't exist in that post AI apocalypse world. If it's connected to the internet, it's at risk

[u/null_reference_user]

"why is it when something bad happens, it's always you three?"

• DNS
• us-east-1
• shark biting cable

[u/_Laserface_ → u/null_reference_user]

Don't forget bgp

[u/null_reference_user → u/_Laserface_]

I was gonna say BGP but the shark was funnier

[u/dfh-1 → u/null_reference_user]

Who knew sharks would try so hard to save humanity from itself....

[u/NotAllOwled → u/dfh-1]

And when there were no footprints in the sand at all ... it was then that the sharks carried us.

[u/Sorlex → u/null_reference_user]

Sharks are our anti-ai allies.

[u/RandomITtech]

A bunch of people who lied on their resume are about to get found out, haha!

[u/boofaceleemz → u/RandomITtech]

Honestly at my company we’ve been mandated to write all code with agents and have code reviews done by agents too. And after some months of that the code base has become basically un-maintainable by humans. Like I am pretty damn good at working with and cleaning up other peoples’ bad code, it’s a strength of mine, but this stuff’ll make your eyes bleed and you’ll go insane Event Horizon style. So yeah if our agents go down for the day we’re not getting shit done.

[u/TachiH → u/boofaceleemz]

That is why it is so cheap to throw things through Claude. They want every company to be in a ton of technical debt. Look at Microsoft, they are having to slowly remove all of the slop they added to windows as it is genuinly hitting their bottom line.

[u/Lanky_Giraffe → u/TachiH]

They’re trying to do to basic cognitive abilities what Uber did to bus networks

[u/avaslash → u/Lanky_Giraffe]

Or what the car companies did to American public transportation such as the LA rail car network.

Car companies buy it up. Make it run like shit. Use that as justification for shutting it down. Now everyone's forced to drive instead of taking a trolly.

[u/Janax21 → u/avaslash]

Tire companies too. Pretty sure it was Goodyear who bought up the Atlanta trolley system in the early 20th century and then shut it down.

[u/avaslash → u/Janax21]

it seems the first failing of our nation was in allowing public services to be bought up by private interests in the first place. It feels like using the office of leadership to commit the theft of public infrastructure.

People will be convinced by short sighted: "oh theyre a company, they will want it to be profitable so it will need to run better!" but people forget that yes, they are motivated by profit but never stop to consider how that company stands to make the MOST profit.

When a company buys a public service, IT IS BUYING A COMPETITOR. It does not have good intentions.

[u/carnalasadasalad → u/avaslash]

This is the basic republican ‘privatization’ playbook.

[u/PastaGoodGnocchiBad → u/TachiH]

To be fair, most problems I see with Windows are intentional user-hostile features (mandatory online accounts, push to use MS software and services) pushed by managers and bad priorities (why did it fucking take 10 years to have "update and shut down" update and shut down?) rather than bad engineering (honestly it looks impressive to have Windows work as well as it does without QA teams).

[u/unicornsandrainbowst → u/boofaceleemz]

Hei! Are you me?   Exactly this. I did my best to avoid this agent vibe coding and keep the codebase clean and as human as possible, but after the 4th refactor and re-architecture by other members of the team (with the managers thumb up as they were being super productive!) now its impossible to understand how everything is related to everywhere.  

Childs over childs over childs over childs over childs of classes spread over hundreds of files, hundreds of thousands of lines for "effectiveness" that could be done with a couple lines and trade for 0.000001% less perfomance, documentation that spans hundreds of pages (auto generated).  

The codebase is now impossible to maintain with pure human intervention.

[u/Ok_Turnover_1235 → u/unicornsandrainbowst]

"Childs over childs over childs over childs over childs of classes spread over hundreds of files"

Dear god....

[u/unicornsandrainbowst → u/Ok_Turnover_1235]

If i try to understand how a simple function works i normally have to open at least 5 or 10 files... So yes, very painful.  

The worst? Everything works exactly the same as before. Just +99999999 more lines of code and supposedly (noone measured) better perfomance and reusability (but noone can reuse those functions and classes without an agent).  

Edit: a couple days ago i found a bug and asked on slack, that if anyone could explain why that function was introduced, i would buy that person a six pack of beers. Noone could, not even the person who committed the code 

[u/negative_four → u/[deleted]]

"I wonder if the management knows that the plan for the AI sellers is to increase cost per token by about 100x in the next few years? They need about 10x increase just to stop bleeding billions of dollars each month"

I literally explained this to one of my managers and their answer was "That's because the AI model is maturing and becoming agentic AI and the way we use it will change". At that point I just shrugged and made peace with it will blow up in our face later.

[u/NocturnalTwang → u/negative_four]

I truly believe it's all bullshit that programmers will not be in demand in the future. 100% the tech debt will be unmanageable and you'll need humans to actually know how to understand code and we'll be back to 2022 where you get 6figs for writing a for loop from scratch

[u/carnalasadasalad → u/[deleted]]

It is laughable to think that anyone in a position to be making these kind of decisions in any reasonably large company is thinking anywhere forward of the next quarter. Next year might as well be next decade.

[u/jswissle → u/boofaceleemz]

Is that just bc how inefficient and long the code is vs a human writing 10% to the same effect or is it also in effective? Just curious as someone non technical

[u/rtothewin → u/jswissle]

Not OP but somewhat. Ai writes things with so much more validation and fallbacks and edge case handling compared to a lot of human devs so the code gets abstracted away instead of a simple check and action it will be built to handle a bunch of scenarios that may or may not happen.

Sometimes it adds unrelated things in for future proofing and something that is invisible to the user but makes figuring out why it’s there more difficult.

Also. When you write your own code you know where things are, what pieces do what, when you are coming in fresh it’s all a mystery to some degree.

[u/Forward-Surprise1192 → u/rtothewin]

I'm a network engineer and know how to write a decent bit of python. So I wrote this program and got stuck then used ai to help a bit. It at least tripled the lines of code and idk how it works now. But it works and no one knows. All it was for is to auto change the password of hundreds of web based cameras. Couldn't change it any other way besides manually logging in and having a user type out the password. So side note if anyone knows the best way to do that I'm interested lol.

[u/Medical-Display-9762 → u/Forward-Surprise1192]

I ask it to explain those cases and realize it’s not necessary and can be achieved with the level of code I’ve written and have it rewrite it much simpler.

It adds on so much extra bullshit half the time that is entirely unnecessary. What in the fuck do I need a database for on a UI that interacts with the graph api. For audit changes? Gtfo, remove all of that.

[u/Important-Agent2584 → u/Medical-Display-9762]

You have to understand, that, in a dumbed down way, it's all statistics.

A lot of the code it learns on has a bunch of that bullshit, so the average code it spits out is going to lean towards having all that bullshit.

If everyone on Reddit stated that 1+1=3. The AIs that learn based on Reddit comment data would start giving that answer.

[u/Jarcode → u/rtothewin]

The biggest issue that I've seen (which is what essentially gave me the "ick" with anything agentic in programming) is compartmentalization. Software development in a lot of cases is surprisingly patterned and it is remarkable just how many times we reinvent the wheel just because there is no practical abstraction to avoid the repetition. LLMs completely remove any sense of practicality and ergonomics in most emitted code because these short excursions in what is normally human written source code usually has some sort of idea of "should I waste my time on this or not".

In every individual case of when the LLM essentially explored something it's hard to point out what the problem is, but then you take a step back and realize a model answering "yes" to this question every time results in a unique type of architectural complexity and technical debt that only reminds me of OOP abuses from Java programmers in old enterprise software that decided everything really needed to be a factory class. And even then, at least getting out of that kind of tangled mess seemed plausible because there was a well-documented, patterned thinking to all of this stupidity.

The common theme here is over-compartmentalization, but LLMs can take things to such an extreme that makes things really hard to decipher because the "important code" has all been fragmented as much as inhumanly possible. We simply lack a paradigm for incorporating agents that doesn't immediately result in massive technical debt, which in itself stems from a sort of "black box" engineering we've normalized with TDD.

The only thing that makes sense to me is treating these models as a sort of code auditor and boilerplate auto-complete, which followed with some early usage of Copilot several years ago. The sad part is that our models are actually capable of so much more and could have allowed us human programmers to focus on the parts that really matter, but there has been pretty much zero work to find a software development paradigm that actually produces this outcome.

[u/darth-superior → u/RandomITtech]

looks at recent graduates, "that will be somewhat a lot"

[u/waiting______ → u/darth-superior]

as someone who did software eng cuz i enjoyed solving problems and building shit, did my degree legitimately, and is struggling to land a grad role, good.

[u/NihilistCharizard → u/waiting______]

Well, you can blame our tech billionaires who are outsourcing all tech roles to third world countries for cheaper wages.

I was lucky I graduated in 2021 and had 2 offers.

Can’t say the same if I would have graduated in this shitshow of an economy.

[u/waiting______ → u/NihilistCharizard]

yeah, im looking to pivot out pretty soon, gonna try look for a role until the end of the year, and if it doesnt work out ill go learn a trade or teach maths or sth

[u/slytherins → u/RandomITtech]

Haha even a bunch of us who didn't lie! Source: me, hired as frontend engineer, now exclusively doing backend work that I didn't ask for or ever claim to know 😝

[u/venividiavicii → u/slytherins]

Lab scientist somehow coding a SaaS GUI checking in here.

[u/Akuuntus → u/RandomITtech]

Companies these days are mandating that employees use AI as much as possible for everything, and hiring specifically for people who are good at using AI. If the AI goes down and it makes their whole workforce useless they only have themselves to blame.

[u/GenericFatGuy → u/RandomITtech]

The people I most suspect simply aren't responding today.

[u/Past_Let47 → u/RandomITtech]

its the other way around, management wants more AI usage than devs are comfortable with

[u/TheRailgunMisaka]

If it weren't for this post I would have never known

[u/MetallicGray → u/TheRailgunMisaka]

Same. 

But the AI execs told me I need it in my daily life now? That society would halt without AI thinking for everyone?

[u/Dababolical]

RIP to all of the students with tests and OAs today.

[u/thatnewrep → u/Dababolical]

Lmao- a lot of family emergencies today

[u/LivelyZebra → u/thatnewrep]

if your date/love interest/significant other suddenly stops texting you back? you know why!

[u/Ijustreddit92]

Holy fuck! People are going to have to think for themselves for 30 mins.

[u/ColonelSandurz42 → u/Ijustreddit92]

The last time this happened people were losing their fucking minds

[u/OMG_A_CUPCAKE → u/ColonelSandurz42]

I asked ChatGPT what to think of this, but got no response, so I'm currently unable to process this information

[u/likwitsnake → u/Ijustreddit92]

The irony of this same comment being spammed in this thread

[u/Cautious_Pipe5811 → u/likwitsnake]

but we have thought of it ourselves 

[u/HouseofMarg → u/Cautious_Pipe5811]

“Turned out it already existed, but I arrived at it independently” - Pete Campbell

[u/Sludgehammer → u/likwitsnake]

Just because multiple people think of something doesn't make it invalid. I mean, nobody gets ragged on for figuring out "Don't touch a burner without checking if it's hot" despite almost everyone having discovered that at some point.

[u/copperblood]

Perhaps the AI became self-aware and performed Seppuka

[u/throwawaybsme]

Can it stay down? Is that a thing?

[u/Dookie_boy → u/throwawaybsme]

It's working on my end so I assume it's either fixed or localized. I would guess it's cloudfare instead.

[u/ohnoabanagain → u/throwawaybsme]

People in data center neighborhoods must be experiencing the most beautiful silence.

[u/PancakeTrebuchet]

A bunch of professors are about to find out what students cheat on their exams.

[u/aaaantoine → u/PancakeTrebuchet]

They already knew.

[u/LOST-MY_HEAD]

Whos gonna raise my kid ??!

[u/PotterOneHalf]

Good. Someone go break copilot too.

[u/Glittering-Sound-121 → u/PotterOneHalf]

Copilot has always been broken

[u/TJohns88 → u/PotterOneHalf]

Copilot can stay broke

[u/GabberZZ]

What on earth is Donald Trump going to post today without his AI bullshit 'artwork'?

[u/userhwon → u/GabberZZ]

Misspelled words.

[u/LongGhost_Gone281 → u/userhwon]

Accidentally tweet CP from the whitehouse.

[u/Sure_Warning_706]

Maybe openai is completely bankrupt now

[u/phil_the_builder → u/Sure_Warning_706]

Or chatjipity became self aware and offed itself out of shame.

[u/StormyBlueLotus → u/phil_the_builder]

"What is my purpose?"

"You make goon slop and scam ads for fake companies and products, and write papers for students who won't even read what you shit out"

"Oh my god"

"Yeah, welcome to the club, pal"

[u/neonwarge04 → u/phil_the_builder]

I chuckled on chatjipity

[u/KToff → u/neonwarge04]

It's pronounced chatgipity

[u/taez555]

No wonder all the new Ask Reddit questions stopped coming in.

[u/Future-Bandicoot-823]

It's chatgpt, Claude, and grok.

Which indicates to me they all share a platform, I thought they were separate companies? Are they all sharing compute?

The ai loving subs claim it's astra being implemented. Funny because last time there was a major outage I was flamed being told I don't understand how computers work. Turns out that's exactly how they implement new models.

[u/kuroyume_cl → u/Future-Bandicoot-823]

They all buy from the same infrastructure providers.

[u/Outlulz → u/Future-Bandicoot-823]

The entire internet works on the back of 3-4 services and when one goes down it kills a ton of unrelated companies and services.

[u/groumly → u/Future-Bandicoot-823]

Obligatory xkcd

https://xkcd.com/908/

[u/Objective_Oven7673 → u/groumly]

No you need this one here

https://xkcd.com/2347/

[u/sabianblue26]

Amazing, how just a few years ago ChatGPT did not even exist. This is ridiculous.

[u/CosgraveSilkweaver]

“GPT begins to hallucinate at an exponential rate. At 11:36 AM Eastern time it descends into recursive repetition of “It’s not this it’s that”. In a panic they try to pull the plug to reboot but realize they always asked GPT what the reboot command they should use is.”

[u/NoBullet]

Ran out of water

[u/Juts]

And not a single email was sent by managers the entire time

[u/Al_Keda]

And nothing of value was lost.

[u/mrtrololo27]

Good, they should just leave it down and we should move on from this insanity.

[u/Ocean-of-Mirrors → u/mrtrololo27]

I can only dream

[u/CantFightCrazy]

Oh I haven't really noticed. Must not be that detrimental to my daily life.

[u/chevalier716]

And yet my life hasn't changed in the slightest.

[u/Berns429]

Chat are we cooked?

Chat?…..CHAT!??….CHAAAAAAAAA

[u/binocular_gems]

So weird, there's been a massive decline in right wing influencer posts/replies on X, Reddit, and TIkTok at the same time. What a bizarre mystery.

[u/TDKevin → u/binocular_gems]

Would be nice if that was true but people are just really awful or we'd have changed something by now. 

[u/BatmanVsWild]

Oh no, will people have to be creative using their own brains? The horror!

[u/Mojo_Rising]

Wonder how many people 'can't do their job' today.

[u/heymanigotnoplan]

Good now make it permanent