Bluesky users are mastering the fine art of blaming everything on "vibe coding"

Social network Bluesky saw some intermittent service disruptions on Monday. On its own, this fact isn't that noteworthy—Bluesky has seen similar service disruptions in the past, and this one coincided with widespread service problems being reported with other popular sites (Bluesky officially blamed the temporary problems on an "upstream service provider"). What made this outage notable for many Bluesky users, though, was the instant assumption that it was the result of sloppy, AI-assisted "vibe coding" by the Bluesky development team. Amid Monday's service issues, many Bluesky feeds were filled with hundreds of posts that laid the blame on developers who were allegedly relying on unreliable AI tools to ship faulty code. Some used memes, others used alt text, still others used irony or wry humor to call out Bluesky's development team for this alleged sloppiness.Read full article Comments