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.
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
It’s always depressing when you ask the AI to explain your code and then you get banned from OpenAI
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