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CharlieDigital • yesterday at 3:23 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

    > I assume most of their outages is related to this insane scaling and lack of available compute.
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    > Vibe coding doesn't automatically mean lower quality
Scalability is a factor of smart/practical architectural decisions. Scalability doesn't happen for free and isn't emergent (the exact opposite is true) unless it is explicitly designed for. Problem is that ceding more of the decision making to the agent means that there's less intentionality in the design and likely a contributor to scaling pains.

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aurareturn • yesterday at 3:31 PM

My theory is that most of their outages are compute and scale related. IE. A few GPU racks blows out and some customers see errors. They don't have any redundant compute as backup because supply is constrained right now. They're willing to lower reliability to maximize revenue.

bpodgursky • yesterday at 3:48 PM

This is only true for small companies that can infinitely scale within AWS without anyone noticing.

You are talking about software scaling patterns, Anthropic is running into hardware limitations because they are maxing out entire datacenters. That's not an architectural decision it's a financial gamble to front-run tens of billions in capacity ahead of demand.

colordrops • yesterday at 3:32 PM

Why would you think that the person you are replying to didn't design in scalability? What exactly are emergent features when vibe coding? If scalability is an explicit requirement it can be done.

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