Third-party-apis Memes

So apparently software engineering is "solved" because Claude has 99% uptime. Cool, cool. Guess we can all pack up and go home now. Just ignore those suspiciously red bars at the end of each timeline labeled "Degraded Performance" - I'm sure those weren't during your critical demo or when you were frantically trying to meet a deadline. The beautiful irony here: we've replaced the uncertainty of writing our own buggy code with the uncertainty of depending on someone else's buggy infrastructure. Progress! Now instead of debugging your own stack traces, you get to refresh a status page and tweet angrily at a cloud provider. The future truly is now. That 1% downtime? That's when your boss asks "why isn't the AI working" and you have to explain that no, you didn't break anything, it's just that our entire product architecture is now a single point of failure hosted by someone else. But hey, at least you don't have to maintain it... until you do.