Changelog Master Feed What is a tech bubble anyway? (Changelog News #171)
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Nov 24, 2025 Cedric Chin challenges the idea of comparing the current AI landscape to past tech bubbles, offering insightful predictions on future market trends. Matthew Prince dives into the recent Cloudflare outage, detailing how a failed status page and a coding oversight led to major disruptions. Discover the hl log viewer, designed for rapid JSON parsing, and explore Enthusiast Guy’s Continuum 93, a nostalgic emulator for retro gaming. The discussion ends with a reminder that actions matter more than empty promises.
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AI Hype Differs From Dot‑Com And 2008
- Comparing today's AI hype to 1999 or 2008 misses key structural differences in markets and listings.
- Cedric Chin argues that private-only winners and harder IPOs change how a "bubble" would play out.
Ask What You Should Do Next
- Don't treat the bubble question as the only decision factor; instead ask "what should I do?".
- Actions depend on your role and goals, so choose responses that match your situation.
Cloudflare Outage Traced To One Unwrap
- Matthew Prince posted a transparent post‑mortem after a Cloudflare outage that crippled much of the internet.
- The incident traced to a Rust Unwrap call that assumed success and caused core traffic failures.