Thanks for the link.
I clicked it and was greeted with this. LOL!
"It seems the shiny new AI tech tool Strategic Management of Airspace Routing Trajectories (SMART) may have become Failed Airspace Routing Trajectories (FART)"
I can easily imagine a batch job on a mainframe that sends every hour some important data by mail and that some logic apps checks that mailbox to propagate the data but now that mails have been delayed +12hours it's going haywire
And that sort of architecture is normally not a problem (finance has all sorts of stuff like that)... but national ATC systems are not the kind of situation were some SRE can just side load the file while keeping their job.
And in 2023, which was more similar to this. This is a departure stop, planes in the air are still heading towards their destinations. This is not the same as 9/11 where flights were redirected to their nearest airports for immediate landings.
Building wooden dwellings is comparatively easy and straightforward.
It is the lack of a tangible result that gives the insecurity that programmers feel when compared to constructed buildings.
The epic is not visible to the uninitiated when it comes to programming whereas with construction it is visible to the naked eye for everyone.
It is easy to see and marvel at a cathedral whereas most don't have the skill required to marvel at the architecture or the codebase of an elegantly designed distributed system.
To be blunt, building a wooden shack is physically easy. Building even a basic program requires a level of abstract mental discipline that most people simply do not possess.
So the "most people" you mentioned who are throwing up a shack to live in, I admire them for that.
Lets see that source code. I don't know how the trump admin is going to cover this one up. The source code is basically self documenting. They can't cover up the choices they made.
If they used AI to vibe code and vibe validate, this will be a criminal situation.FAA regulated code has to follow a structured development, testing, and release process with sign offs by qualified people with specifically roles at different steps.
You can't replace the human checks with AI. AI is an averaging machine that averages the data it was trained on. It gives average answers while brute forcing away problems until the solution passes a test that was slop coded the same way.
I look forward to the congressional investigations when these people try to say SI instead of AI. That SI moniker is only used by unqualified people in the trump admin or corrupt businesses. The source code is not going to lie, these people likely don't understand what they deployed.
2. The idea that someone would ground all air traffic in order to disrupt Anthropic’s IPO is an absolutely wild conspiracy theory with no basis in reality
1. There are plenty of systems in existence that haven’t been touched or maintained by AI. Including creaky old air traffic control systems.
2. Yes, it’s a wild and ridiculous theory. The sheer number of people that would be required in order to pull it off would guarantee that it leaks. It would be a verifiably insane thing to do if you were trying to tank the Anthropic IPO.
"It seems the shiny new AI tech tool Strategic Management of Airspace Routing Trajectories (SMART) may have become Failed Airspace Routing Trajectories (FART)"
It's radio. Either you jam it or it works. That's the selling point.
Has this ever happened?
Happened in 2023 https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-notam-statement
Must I, even say their name.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/11/faa-orders-airlines-to-pause...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_FAA_system_outage
it may be something similar - remove all random, but controllable sources of radar return for military to start scanning
Looks like the woodpecker has arrived.
But this is hilarious, and hence I am upvoting.
Some cathederals are built, over time, by craftsmen who do work that spans decades.
However, very few of us are doing that. Most people are just throwing up a shack to live in.
Building wooden dwellings is comparatively easy and straightforward.
It is the lack of a tangible result that gives the insecurity that programmers feel when compared to constructed buildings.
The epic is not visible to the uninitiated when it comes to programming whereas with construction it is visible to the naked eye for everyone.
It is easy to see and marvel at a cathedral whereas most don't have the skill required to marvel at the architecture or the codebase of an elegantly designed distributed system.
To be blunt, building a wooden shack is physically easy. Building even a basic program requires a level of abstract mental discipline that most people simply do not possess.
So the "most people" you mentioned who are throwing up a shack to live in, I admire them for that.
These of course are all alternate plans if Batman and Spiderman aren’t available.
If they used AI to vibe code and vibe validate, this will be a criminal situation.FAA regulated code has to follow a structured development, testing, and release process with sign offs by qualified people with specifically roles at different steps.
You can't replace the human checks with AI. AI is an averaging machine that averages the data it was trained on. It gives average answers while brute forcing away problems until the solution passes a test that was slop coded the same way.
I look forward to the congressional investigations when these people try to say SI instead of AI. That SI moniker is only used by unqualified people in the trump admin or corrupt businesses. The source code is not going to lie, these people likely don't understand what they deployed.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/11/faa-to-finally-d...
More likely: the reengineered system has a serious bug.
The reason is clear: all this points to the ANT ipo next week, people want to pop the AI bubble.
2. The idea that someone would ground all air traffic in order to disrupt Anthropic’s IPO is an absolutely wild conspiracy theory with no basis in reality
2. Not wild at all. People have vested interested in creating fear around AI.
2. Yes, it’s a wild and ridiculous theory. The sheer number of people that would be required in order to pull it off would guarantee that it leaks. It would be a verifiably insane thing to do if you were trying to tank the Anthropic IPO.