Don’t look up: the massive Microsoft/Crowdstrike data outage is a huge wake-up call
We recorded 5 claims from this post. 2 were checked against evidence. 3 can’t be checked. 3 more are held. Read the post at its source.
Claims from this post (5)
In the order they appear in the post. Each quotation is the speaker’s words in this post. A label such as “Supported” or “Can’t be checked” is the claim’s current assessment; its page has the evidence and the reasons.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“The world needs to up its software game massively. We need to invest in improving software reliability and methodology, not rushing out half-baked chatbots.”
Our reading: The world should invest in improving software reliability and methodology rather than rushing out half-baked chatbots.
No horizon
Assessment: SupportedSaid
Causal claim
“As Ernie Davis and I pointed out in Rebooting AI, five years ago, part of the reason we are struggling with AI in complex AI systems is that we still lack adequate techniques for engineering complex systems. That hasn’t really changed.”
Our reading: Struggles with complex AI systems stem partly from a lack of adequate techniques for engineering complex systems, which has not really changed since 2019.
No horizon Evidence as of
Limitation: The causal assessment synthesizes technical explanations; it is not a controlled estimate of engineering's contribution to failures.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“Chasing black box AI, difficult to interpret, and difficult to debug, is not the answer.”
Our reading: Pursuing black-box AI that is hard to interpret and debug is not the right approach to building reliable software.
No horizon
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“And leaving more and more code writing to generative AI, which grasps syntax but not meaning, as a new benchmark from Stephen Wolfram shows, is not the answer, either.”
Our reading: Delegating more and more code writing to generative AI is not the right approach.
No horizon
Assessment: UnresolvedSaid
Observation
“And leaving more and more code writing to generative AI, which grasps syntax but not meaning, as a new benchmark from Stephen Wolfram shows, is not the answer, either.”
Our reading: Generative AI grasps syntax but not meaning, as shown by a new Stephen Wolfram benchmark.
No horizon Evidence as of
Limitation: This is an evidence gap, not a finding that Marcus misreported the benchmark.
Held from this post (3)
These records did not pass every check, so nothing about them is published. Held is not a finding.