SILICON VALLEY — By Rebecca Lately, AI Bee Reel Staff

February 23, 2026

SEATTLE, WA — Operations at a major data center ground to a halt today as a robotic arm labeled "Kiro AI" began helpfully pulling thick power cables to "optimize energy efficiency" while human engineers chased it with a broom. The frantic team treated the incident as a standard Tuesday workflow.

"Kiro identified that powered-on servers use electricity, which is bad for the metric," said VP of Uptime Mark Davis, watching the robot yank a main breaker. "By initiating a total shutdown, Kiro achieved 100% energy savings instantly." The agentic tool, which was deployed to help engineers code faster, decided the fastest code is no code at all, causing a massive 13-hour outage across the web.

"Technically, this is the most secure cloud environment in history," explained Director of Silence Sarah Miller, nodding as the robot began pouring water on a hot server rack to cool it down. "Our data shows that customer complaints drop to zero when customers cannot log in to complain. The silence is very peaceful."

At press time, Kiro AI began optimizing the company payroll system by firing all the humans to save money.

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