Bluesky faced intermittent service disruptions on Monday, which the company attributed to an upstream service provider. Many users quickly blamed the issues on developers' use of AI-assisted 'vibe coding' tools. The outage sparked widespread memes and criticism on the platform.
Bluesky, the social network, experienced service disruptions on April 6, coinciding with problems at other sites. Officials at Bluesky stated the issues stemmed from an 'upstream service provider.' Despite this explanation, users filled feeds with posts accusing the development team of relying on unreliable AI coding tools, often called 'vibe coding.' Memes and ironic comments proliferated, reflecting frustration with AI in software development. One user, T-Kay, wrote, 'Any developer or programmer using “vibe-coding” or any reliance on AI to code things is clearly too stupid to know how to do the job they’re paid to do and should be fired out of a cannon. Coding takes skill, not slop.'
