Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours

Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by oblio on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:45AM (#50480836)

Who wants to bet that this is ultimately due to AI, either an action taken by AI or just general AI code rot coupled with developer knowledge decay?

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by j4k0bfr on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:56AM (#50480962)

Or layoffs attributed to AI?

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by StingyJelly on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:15AM (#50481165)

Or ai-agent-assisted attack, possibly directly using the hijacked infrastructure for inference.

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by quaffcode on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:37AM (#50481463)

I would bet my lunch that the failing code is immediately attributable to AI, but the root cause is a failure of hiring, leadership, accountability, QA. If it was bad AI code, it was still deployed by a bad developer. The buck stops with us humans.

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by tonyedgecombe on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:50AM (#50481605)

[delayed]

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by oblio on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:05AM (#50481785)

I know that we like to pretend otherwise but leadership are humans, too :-p

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by avgDev on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:57AM (#50486279)

The problem is that AI can generate thousands lines of code....but I can read only few hundred a day with full focus.

It is much easier to read the code you wrote.

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by vv_ on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:59AM (#50481723)

They are just vibing a fix for this right now... any minute now!

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