Major Cloud providers have all suffered significant outages recently. At an unprecedented rate.
They are firing engineers because of their 'AI'.
I wonder if these things are related.
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@stefano This piece was ref: the big AWS outage a few weeks back, but it covers a bunch of the same ground which you may find interesting: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/
Asking the real questions, right here.
"Is firing engineers to replace them by AI going to impact reliability?" ... Hmmm... 🤔
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@stefano
Replaxing them *with an AI that goes down with Cloudflare*, too !
@stefano I think vibe coding does its part
@stefano I am certain they are. So far, #tech companies are pouring billions into #AI but there is little to no #roi.
For AI to be used correctly it needs to serve some otherwise mundane function, not replace staff with decades of institutional #knowledge.
So far, we've seen AI churn out glitchy #pictures and #erroneous #text #generation.
Call me a #Luddite, but this is definitely an instance where going back to the olden days is necessary, i.e. a decentralized #internet run by #humanbeings.
@stefano Didn't someone film themselves getting fired at Clownflare?
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