“We believe we have found the cause of the problem and are working on mitigation.” Wow - they believe they’ve found it! Comforting.

Having worked at Microsoft in the recent past I’m not surprised everything is starting to fall over a lot more.

While there are tons of good people at Microsoft, the overall culture and number of people who stand in the way of getting stuff done well is immense. People view you or your team doing work as an existential threat to their team, and react accordingly.

I don’t think the recent uptick in failures is related to vibe coding or AI and has everything to do with the corporate culture. Probably some poor product manager was tasked with closing 10k automated security flags/tickets and in doing so broke some load bearing microservice that depended on a kind of service principal that’s now not allowed.