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Firebase SDK is crashing all iOS apps since this morning

135 points · 72 comments · pranshuchittora

rvz · 1790673575 · focus · HN ↗
Keep vibe coding and breaking everything.
This will be the new normal as all human “engineers” from staff to seniors are now down levelled to interns and junior engineers when using AI; unable to understand what they are doing and pushing broken updates like this into production with “agents”.
Better not blame Claude on this outage.
1. phoghed · 1790679220 · focus · HN ↗
  <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23097459">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23097459
  1. rvz · 1790682197 · focus · HN ↗
    So we have not learned anything since then, on both sides from the SDK builder side and the client side.
    Why is it that iOS is crashing but not Android?
    Google should know better to not have such an incident like this as the Firebase SDK runs on millions of apps.
    If you did not implement a fall back mechanism, perhaps you based your testing assumptions on that “Firebase could never crash my app” which is now false.

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