Office 365 and Copilot are down.

Run. Now's your chance. Don't look back; just GO

MSN

@AAKL Beware of cum hoc ergo propter hoc
@mttaggart Agreed, especially that Microsoft has been doing business with Anthropic. So all of this could be in-house.
@AAKL I am saying the opposite. This is correlation by time and that's it. No evidence that they are directly related.
@mttaggart You misunderstand me. I agree that there is no evidence of a direct connection. I only mention Claude because Microsoft has been using it internally for some time now.
@AAKL Ah I see, so you suspect it is Claude's outage (which seems resolved) is responsible for the 0365 outage? Yeahhh I see the link, but imo it's tenuous.

@mttaggart it is. It could be a misconfiguration or anything. Here's another view of the outage:

https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/outlook.com.html

And The Verge story about the Claude code: https://www.theverge.com/tech/865689/microsoft-claude-code-anthropic-partnership-notepad

Outlook.com Down or Just Me ?

Outlook down? Check whether Outlook.com server is down right now or having outage problems for everyone or just for you.

@mttaggart @AAKL I say it's the times Claude was up that may be responsible for O365's outage. Just vibe up a part of the network config, and bam!
@ozzelot @mttaggart Well, it happened to Amazon.
@mttaggart first day at the new job going well @catsalad ?
@not_a_label @mttaggart I just want to improve everyone's mental health!
@catsalad @mttaggart carry on... you're doing great 🙏
@catsalad @not_a_label @mttaggart *emails you passwords.zip* Go nuts. ;3
@mttaggart not every monday is that bad...

@mttaggart

Did some agent slop-deploy some slop-coded bugs?

Taggart (@[email protected])

I am claiming this as Taggart's Razor

Infosec Exchange

@mttaggart

Why can't it be both?

@mttaggart All yall havin fun but it works here. Just got off a meeting.

@Sempf This is currently up in the customer portal.

It works here too, but intermittently.

@mttaggart With the contorted network configs everyone is using these days this will probably become even more common, I imagine.
@mttaggart there are no emails to find you, hide while it's not looking
@mttaggart Holy fuck!!! I will! THANKS!!! FAREWELL!!!!!

@mttaggart

I'm running Office 2016. Everything looks fine here!

@mttaggart
... Its faint, but it's definitely there. You heard it. Or did you? No, you definitely did. That metallic, harrow sound of a shape, laughing uncontrollably... as if it knows something you don't.

Clippy.

He's back. For real. In your infrastructure. In your email. AI. Hype. Quadrant. Cyclic independence, scalers. It's all there.

Controlled by a shape. Controlled by Clippy.

Run. Run now!!

@mttaggart Wait, hang on a sec. Are we to understand there's…like…a disadvantage or drawback or something if you don't have your stuff on your own computer, in a manner that doesn't require buying access and usage permissions on an ongoing basis?

Are you sure? Because that doesn't sound right.

</s>

@mttaggart Is it the ongoing AWS problems caused by their integration of AI into the control plane?

@rrb

Yes.

"Under ‘contributing factors,’ the note included ‘novel genAI usage for which best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established.’"

https://www.cio.com/article/4143381/amazon-is-linking-site-hiccups-to-ai-efforts-2.html

Amazon is linking site hiccups to AI efforts

Amazon’s engineering team is working to figure out ways to minimize site and other operational glitches that executives believe are AI-related.

CIO
@shaknais the first application of AI that I like
@mttaggart Oh, for those, I'm not running. I'm stepping in closer with the steel-capped boots for some revenge.
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@Quasit @mttaggart yeah that doesn't work for those of us who have to use Office for work.
@mttaggart This guess goes waaay back: Could it have been him again, after all those years?
@mttaggart Heh. I noticed the prompt for me to install Co-Pilot upgrade on my work computer has disappeared. No need to ignore it! lol!
Reason number 15 and counting on why did I bother to install Nextcloud with Collabora
@mttaggart Sadly, does not seem to have disrupted my email or sharepoint access.
@mttaggart hoping for the day it affects Windows too, and the IT department finally lets me install Linux
@leonardof @mttaggart Most IT departments will never notice if you dual-boot and log into windows once every few months.

@bluewinds @mttaggart

🤔 I don't have admin rights, but have never tried to boot a flash drive...

@mttaggart started running some months ago and still going!
@wendythedruid @mttaggart lol unplanned maintenance?
@elshara A.I. slop is on strike, wants more money.
@wendythedruid @mttaggart
@energisch_ @wendythedruid @mttaggart Ah, that. Unsurprised. It's a bubble and it will pop.
@energisch_ @elshara @mttaggart this shocks you ? I mean we have to be close to self awareness right ?

@wendythedruid I rather wonder, why not sooner chaos started, they've been using A.I. generated code for a while now. @elshara @mttaggart

As for A.I. Self awareness - we're Galaxies away from that. Otherwise, A.I. would kill itself due to the many mistakes.

@energisch_ @elshara @mttaggart

That is a rather astute opinion, and one I can happily agree with I think.

as far as AI generated code, my company requires its use, so what do I do?

I give my AI agent 900,000 words of instruction set (involving easily 300,000 lines of python I personally have written myself and hardened), only to ask the AI

I wrote this block of py (or go or whatever) , does it seem sound and secure in 20 words?

No, you say.

Fine, Ill go back and re write it.

@wendythedruid @energisch_ @mttaggart Isn't that kind of self depreciating? If you know the language better than an agentic coder?

@mttaggart

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