Coinbase Trading Platform Goes Down Three Days After CEO Bragged About AI Writing Production Code
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May 8, 2026
Three days after Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong fired 700 engineers and boasted that non-technical staff were pushing AI-generated code to production, the exchange’s trading engine went down — and the status page it uses to communicate outages crashed with it. The outage began at 18:06 PDT on May 7, taking down Coinbase’s website, mobile app, […]
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