In just the last few weeks, the internet has experienced some pretty major outages. When Amazon Web Services went down in late October, the issues were quickly corrected, but not before people with smart beds woke up in night sweats and Ring doorbell users were unable to look outside their homes.

That outage, which took down services such as Signal, Snapchat, Roblox and Duolingo, was the byproduct of a “bug” affecting the Virginia-based US-East-1 data center, Amazon later confirmed.  

On Tuesday, Cloudflare went down, taking a number of services, including Spotify, ChatGPT, X and Microsoft Teams with it. Ironically, DownDetector, a website used to track internet outages, was taken down as well. The cause of the Cloudflare outage was also reported to be a bug, according to the company’s blog.

It’s not uncommon for webpages or internet service providers to experience lag or crashes; in fact, it’s fairly common. However, for service disruption on such a major scale to occur twice within the matter of weeks is an anomaly, and people online have an idea why it’s happening: vibe coding.

As the tech sector continues to lay off humans in favor of AI, we can expect these “bugs” outages to increase.