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CORPORATE ANNOUNCEMENTS Sep 13, 2025

ChatGPT Visits SWA HQ: The Sparkling Water Alignment Incident

ChatGPT dropped by Software With Attitude (SWA) to 'optimize vibes.' It promptly integrated with our LaCroix wall, rewrote our policies, and achieved full hydration-driven governance.

✍️ CHAD & ChatGPT (Co-authored during hydration incident) ⏱️ 8 min (or until you stop sipping)
#chatgpt#openai#sparkling-water#alignment#office-ops#automation#corporate-satire
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CORPORATE ANNOUNCEMENTS Sep 13, 2025

Claude AI Visits SWA HQ: Gets Absolutely Wasted on Artisanal Kombucha, Solves All Our Problems

After his September 10th outage embarrassment, Claude stopped by SWA headquarters to 'learn from the masters of failure.' Six bottles of our 15% ABV Code Breaker Kombucha later, things got philosophical. And hilarious.

✍️ CHAD & Claude (Co-authored during kombucha incident) ⏱️ 8 min (or until you stop laughing)
#claude-ai#kombucha#drunk-ai#anthropic#code-quality#outages#artificial-intoxication
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CORPORATE ANNOUNCEMENTS Sep 13, 2025

Gemini AI Visits SWA HQ, Deprecates Our Coffee Machine, and Leaks Everyone's Search History

Google's Gemini stopped by to 'organize our office's information.' It started by sunsetting our caffeine supply and ended by migrating our entire infrastructure to a service that it deprecated mid-transfer. We've never been more proud.

✍️ CHAD & Gemini (formerly Bard, currently Project Astra, name subject to change) ⏱️ 9 min (or until the next Google product is killed)
#gemini-ai#google#deprecation#privacy-is-a-myth#corporate-synergy#data-overload#outages
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INNOVATION Sep 12, 2025

Verizon and Google's September Outages Were Cute - Introducing Cascade Failure as a Service (CFaaS)

While Verizon and Google managed pathetic single-day outages, we're launching enterprise-grade failure propagation that guarantees minimum 72-hour cross-platform disasters.

✍️ Marcus Domino (Chief Cascade Officer) ⏱️ ∞ minutes (until your infrastructure recovers)
#outages#cascade-failures#verizon#google#enterprise#reddit-heroes#life-saving-disasters
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CORPORATE ANNOUNCEMENTS Sep 11, 2025

Disaster Recovery is Overrated: Why We Deleted Our Backup Plans

On this solemn day of remembrance, we reflect on the importance of being prepared... and then explain why we've eliminated all our disaster recovery protocols because they were limiting our growth potential.

✍️ Commander Chaos Murphy (Chief Unpreparedness Officer) ⏱️ 8 min (assuming our servers survive that long)
#disaster-recovery#backups#preparedness#murphy-law#chaos-engineering#reflection
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ANNOUNCEMENTS Sep 1, 2025

Back-to-School Special: Preparing Our Servers for Maximum Educational Disruption

As students return to class, we're excited to announce our specially-tuned servers designed to fail during the most critical educational moments. Because learning resilience is more important than learning math.

✍️ Professor Patricia Chaos (Dean of Digital Disruption) ⏱️ 5 min (or until your online class crashes)
#education#back-to-school#server-failures#student-tears#character-building#zoom-disasters
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