[archive.org link to a series of substack articles, apologies for that but it's not directly giving them eyeballs] https://web.archive.org/web/20260404015324/https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion
it's important to remember that systems do degrade and reach breaking points. companies never put out press releases when they hit these "it's fucked beyond all hope" moments, their tendency is to plow through regardless of costs. but reality is asserting itself in this story and so many like it. we can't plan against the specifics but we can strategize.