Rumor: When One Major AI Service Goes Down, Its Traffic Takes the Rest Down With It
jxnlco · x · 2026-09-04
Thibault Sottiaux relayed a rumor making the rounds: when a major AI service goes down, so much of its traffic has to be absorbed by competing providers that they all end up going down too. The quip landed on a day when multiple top model services suffered simultaneous outages, hinting at how tightly coupled the leading inference backends have become.
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