who knows if this can be trusted but it looks like it was a good ol' organic Oopsie and not related to the AI system thing that everyone decided was the cause lol https://www.theverge.com/transportation/1033898/faa-ground-stop-sean-duffy-faa-copper-wire#comments
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@mcc It sounds like the floppy disk thing is to be done by EOY 2028 so idk how much credence I lead to the theory of it being related today https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/11/faa-to-finally-ditch-floppy-disks-in-what-it-calls-historic-tech-upgrade/
@eramdam The floppy disk thing started less than two weeks ago. If I ask (as I am *asking*, not arguing) whether key technical staff are over-subscribed on tasks right now on a Friday afternoon, this is the period they'd be distracted; we'd expect a two year upgrade takes more attention 10 days in than exactly 7 months in.
@mcc like, this all sounds like issues we've had for [checks notes] 15 years at least in the tech sector. We didnt need AI to overwork ppl and fire them for no good reason and I worry that "haha AI bad" distracts from that.
@eramdam 1. If the united states government will not give accurate information then it is reasonable for people making absentminded jokes on social media to speculate wildly. At the moment, even your link is not entirely trustworthy.
2. It is still possible the problem is buzzword-bedazzled managers demanding "top to bottom upgrades" and considering newness to take priority over understanding the use case and why things are as they are. "AI" is fundamentally inseparable from that.
@eramdam maybe he shouldn't have done the floppy disk modernization, the copper wire upgrades, and the rollout of new major systems ("AI", whatever that means in this context) at the same time though? maybe if the larger body of tech staff had their full 2023 staff and had less on their plate they could have responded better or quicker