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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. 🤣 (lemmy.ml)

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https://www.ft.com/content/00c282de-ed14-4acd-a948-bc8d6bdb339d (https://archive.ph/yqoNC)

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[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I don't think 'deliver a service' or 'fix things' falls under the 'move fast and break things' mantra Techbros preach.