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Hacker News Friday 12 June 2026, 13:49 UTC By reportinglurker 1 min read
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"I'll just do this small release on a Friday before heading out" - thought a software engineer before AI-slopification period. Today it was probably some AI agent which fixed all of the performance problems by deleting everything. Not sure if that's better or worse than the time in 2021 when they had some sort of glitch that brought down their systems and locked people out of their data centers.

"I'll just do this small release on a Friday before heading out" - thought a software engineer before AI-slopification period. Today it was probably some AI agent which fixed all of the performance problems by deleting everything. Not sure if that's better or worse than the time in 2021 when they had some sort of glitch that brought down their systems and locked people out of their data centers. The market thinks this company is worth over a trillion dollars. Remember that. I just tried again and I can load the home pages for both sites without issues from Ohio in a private Safari window. Don't have a way to upload a screenshot.
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