decisions, healthcare, llm, openai, system-reliability

The Silicon Protocol: When Your LLM API Goes Down and Mission-Critical Systems Stop (2026)

11:47 AM: OpenAI outage begins. 12:15 PM: 340 hospitals offline. 2:47 AM next day: Recovery after 15 hours. Trading halted, benefits queued, patient care degraded. One API failure, three industries stopped.June 10, 2025: OpenAI’s 15-hour outage took do…