## [![AI’s Impending Left-pad Scenario](/blog/assets/images/the-server-on-fire-7aa9a3a251bcc5c5e16d5cfd39420e83.webp)](/blog/ai-left-pad/.md)[AI’s Impending Left-pad Scenario](/blog/ai-left-pad/.md)

Your AI workflows rely on models that other people post on the Internet. How can you be sure that they'll stay up? Today Xe covers the history of the infamous left-pad incident of 2016 and how it could happen again with AI.

Xe Iaso · February 11, 2025 ·

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