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> US-EAST-CHAOS-MONKEY

"We *meant* to take down half the fuckin' internets."

It's their oldest and thus most strained availability zone. It's not some "chaos monkey" reliability test. Nobody runs a test that takes down half the goddamn internet: https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/12/aws-outage-postmortem/ .

> Using what makes sense for you has never been bad advice

Right, what I said was "don't use what works for you". You haven't read the thread: I have explained to you the context of my remarks--that the only difference between Grok and OpenAI is *who* owns it, which is not a major difference--and you have started quoting Conway's Law at me. Although I can appreciate running into someone that has read Brooks, a recap of the difference between how deployments worked in 2005 and how they work in 2025 is best sent to someone that wasn't there.