Social network Bluesky saw some intermittent service disruptions on Monday. On its own, this fact isn’t that noteworthy—Bluesky has seen similar service disruptions in the past, and this one coincided with widespread service problems being reported with other popular sites (Bluesky officially blamed the temporary problems on an “upstream service provider”).
What made this outage notable for many Bluesky users, though, was the instant assumption that it was the result of sloppy, AI-assisted “vibe coding” by the Bluesky development team.
Amid Monday’s service issues, many Bluesky feeds were filled with hundreds of posts that laid the blame on developers who were allegedly relying on unreliable AI tools to ship faulty code. Some used memes, others used alt text, still others used irony or wry humor to call out Bluesky’s development team for this alleged sloppiness.
Overall, though, the mood among these vibe-code blamers was one of righteous anger. “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,” Bluesky user T-Kay wrote, summing up the, er, vibe. “Coding takes skill, not slop.”
bluesky employees: we are vibe coding the entire website using only AI now
yeah dude, i can tell
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— lex luddy (ichiban appreciator) (@lexluddy.xyz) April 6, 2026 at 10:29 AM
It’s the kind of reaction that highlights just how many tech users are still reflexively repulsed by the idea that AI tools were used in any way to create the products they use. Even as professional coders are becoming increasingly enthusiastic about the power of AI coding tools, many end users still see them as a boogeyman to instantly blame for any and all observed ills in the tech industry.
“Things are changing. Fast.”
Before yesterday’s outage, many on the Bluesky development team faced social media backlash for admitting they used AI tools in their work. Bluesky founder and Chief Innovation Officer Jay Graber posted point-blank in late March that “Bluesky is made with AI, the engineers and even some non-engineers use Claude Code,” for instance. And Bluesky Technical Advisor Jeromy Johnson (who goes by the handle “Why” on the site) has been an outspoken proponent of AI coding tools, saying in February that “In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast.”
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