Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages:Ecommerce giant says there has been a ‘trend of incidents’ linked to ‘Gen-AI assisted changes’

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages:
Ecommerce giant says there has been a ‘trend of incidents’ linked to ‘Gen-AI assisted changes’

https://www.ft.com/content/7cab4ec7-4712-4137-b602-119a44f771de
archive: https://archive.is/wXvF3

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[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

@davidgerard if only there were some way to foresee this

[jmax@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard https://youtu.be/2TnkJ8_BmSI

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@dysfun Clod Cod has BETRAYED me

[carepackage17@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@davidgerard they should just ask the chatbot to fix this, I'm sure it'll go well

[rogerbw@discordian.social]

@davidgerard @dysfun See, even more evidence that it's as smart as a human, though we are not going to go the next step towards paying it like a human because for those few of us who believed this would actually work slaves were the whole point.

[spzb@infosec.exchange]

@davidgerard “novel GenAI usage for which best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established”

How difficult is it to say “no, don’t do that”?

[kevin@mastodon.km6g.us]

@davidgerard

[rotopenguin@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard I don't understand? I fired all of the engineers and replaced them with meat-shaped accountability sinks.

Why is everything breaking? Did I not do it enough?

[gavin57@toot.wales]

@davidgerard ‘assisted’ is doing some heavy lifting here.

[thvv@social.vivaldi.net]

@davidgerard

this is a subscription ad, not news.

[paparouleur@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard the labor-destroying slop machine cannot fail, it can only be failed imperfect humans

[interpipes@thx.gg]

@davidgerard "could it... could it be the garbage generation machine's fault? No, it can't be, we had humans monitoring it's output! It must be the humans, fire all the humans!"

[teleute@is.nota.live]

@davidgerard shockedpikachu.gif

[jer@chirp.enworld.org]

@davidgerard "Junior and mid-level engineers will now require more senior engineers to sign off any AI-assisted changes, "

Um wut? Does Amazon normally shove code out without code review or something? Even if its not ai-generated there should be a review process!

Oh well. It's not like a giant chunk of the internet is dependent on Amazon code quality!

[sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club]

@davidgerard I’m sure putting the extra burden of more work and accountability on senior engineers will have no negative consequences.

[indigoviolet@tech.lgbt]

@davidgerard This is very bad for my ego I should NOT have my wild theories proven correct

[adrake@sfba.social]

@Jer @davidgerard I don't know Amazon's practices specifically, but at most places I'm aware of, the baseline requirement is for review by any colleague who's familiar with the area being modified. Larger-scale changes or changes to sensitive areas will sometimes require review from some designated owner, who is probably (but not necessarily) more senior, and that would apply to anyone at any level. Unusual to require that on a really large class of changes purely based on seniority!