It turns out that this was, in fact, the case. They DDOS'd themselves, with a deployment of their own code - something they have separately claimed is "99% AI written" these days.
There is apparently a blog post going around but I am blocked by the person who posted it. I would still wait for the RCA. (EDIT: this is the blog post, it's about an outage a week ago, and does not mention AI: https://pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/april-2026-outage-post-mortem-2... )
Source? Bluesky has not published a RCA yet and they said the would on April 20: https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3mjprnr5ptk2m
There is apparently a blog post going around but I am blocked by the person who posted it. I would still wait for the RCA. (EDIT: this is the blog post, it's about an outage a week ago, and does not mention AI: https://pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/april-2026-outage-post-mortem-2... )