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@yogthos@social.marxist.network  ·  activity timestamp last week

Amazon's internal agentic tool decided that existing code was inadequate and decided to replace it taking down a part of AWS for 13 hours, and was not the first time it had happened. 🤣

https://www.ft.com/content/00c282de-ed14-4acd-a948-bc8d6bdb339d

#technology #programmerhumor #news

Amazon Web Services experienced a 13-hour interruption to one system used by its customers in mid-December after engineers allowed its Kiro AI coding tool to make certain changes, according to four people familiar with the matter.
The people said the agentic tool, which can take autonomous actions on behalf of users, determined that the best course of action was to “delete and recreate the environment”.
Amazon posted an internal postmortem about the “outage” of the AWS system, which lets customers explore the costs of its services.
Amazon Web Services experienced a 13-hour interruption to one system used by its customers in mid-December after engineers allowed its Kiro AI coding tool to make certain changes, according to four people familiar with the matter. The people said the agentic tool, which can take autonomous actions on behalf of users, determined that the best course of action was to “delete and recreate the environment”. Amazon posted an internal postmortem about the “outage” of the AWS system, which lets customers explore the costs of its services.
Amazon Web Services experienced a 13-hour interruption to one system used by its customers in mid-December after engineers allowed its Kiro AI coding tool to make certain changes, according to four people familiar with the matter. The people said the agentic tool, which can take autonomous actions on behalf of users, determined that the best course of action was to “delete and recreate the environment”. Amazon posted an internal postmortem about the “outage” of the AWS system, which lets customers explore the costs of its services.

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@Cal@kind.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

@yogthos

#AIIsGoingGreat

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Yogthos
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@yogthos@social.marxist.network  ·  activity timestamp last week

@Cal Looks like AWS team didn’t even have a branch so they could test its changes. Also wild they don’t even have a human in the loop to do any sort of review before the agent pushes to prod. It’s an absolute clown show over at Amazon.

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@nmaas87@chaos.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

@yogthos to "delete and recreate" - wasn't that son of anton's solution in the good old "silicon valley" series? Funny how to reality starts to keep up with the fiction.

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