Its helping us by hurting Amazon.
Finally… based AI.
Soo, they piped a probabilistic token predictor straight into a root console of a customer-facing service, and it only caused an outage twice so far? They should consider themselves lucky.
I don’t think ‘deliver a service’ or ‘fix things’ falls under the ‘move fast and break things’ mantra Techbros preach.
I don’t have hard evidence for this (might try and find some at some point though), but I feel like outages have become progressively more common in the last 4-5ish years.
Feels like every time the AI tools “get better” there’s an increase and no one gives a shit. Like, what the fuck? When did stability and reliability become so irrelevant to people?
Hell, GitHub might as well just close up shop with the amount of outages it’s had recently! I get that the bubble is a bubble but how has AI not cost companies enough in outages to show it’s a waste???
How the fuck does a tech company as big as Amazon have this running in production and not a test/staging environment? This is the kind of mistake a platform run by one person makes and even then they probably won’t make it again.
Huh, something tells me that working in FAANG doesn’t actually make you a better engineer, they just have more money to not throw at R&D which somehow makes you feel superior to every other engineer 🤔
The problem isn’t necessarily the workers, the problem is management. It’s an extension of class warfare. Copying an old comment of mine
I left one of the big tech companies this year. AI perverted absolutely everything. The only thing worse than vibe code is having to maintain someone else’s vibe code on a codebase you spent the last 7 years nursing. Vibe code is absolute trash, but it’s management’s shiny new toy so they make it everyone’s problem.
Expectations changed because of it. A project that would normally take 3 months to plan and implement was expected in a week, quality be damned. We racked up over 500 bugs in a year for a different unreleased application. I would get deadlines in the middle of my vacation days.
And I haven’t even gotten to the moral and humanitarian issues
