▲ 643 ▼ Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash (80.lv) submitted 1 year ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world 69 comments fedilink hide all child comments https://blog.stackademic.com/aws-just-fired-40-of-its-devops-team-then-let-ai-take-their-jobs-d9db9d298bfa More evidence: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazons-aws-cloud-computing-unit-cuts-least-hundreds-jobs-sources-say-2025-07-17/ but back in July this year.
[+] Lembot_0004@discuss.online 200 points 1 year ago (3 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] obinice@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 child) To be fair, this is 2025, there's no trustworthy data about anything any more. Hell, you might just be an AI. Or I might just be an AI. Or maybe there wasn't even an outage. I didn't notice any issues, so maybe AI hallucinated it, or it's been made up as clickbait and been second-hand reported by thousands of news sites that don't care about fact checking any more. Not that there are facts any more, anyway. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Cybersteel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago The news could report on a non existent attack on US soul and suddenly trigger world war 2 permalink fedilink source parent [–] davidagain@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago Amazon is laying off or has lost truly staggering numbers of experienced staff. So it might not be AI, although my experience with AI suggests it's right about 60% of the time and there's no way I would let it implement it's own recommendations anywhere near anything that earned me money. It might just be cheaper, younger, newer staff making mistakes they don't know how to fix. https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/ permalink fedilink source parent
[–] obinice@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 child) To be fair, this is 2025, there's no trustworthy data about anything any more. Hell, you might just be an AI. Or I might just be an AI. Or maybe there wasn't even an outage. I didn't notice any issues, so maybe AI hallucinated it, or it's been made up as clickbait and been second-hand reported by thousands of news sites that don't care about fact checking any more. Not that there are facts any more, anyway. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Cybersteel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago The news could report on a non existent attack on US soul and suddenly trigger world war 2 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Cybersteel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago The news could report on a non existent attack on US soul and suddenly trigger world war 2 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago Amazon is laying off or has lost truly staggering numbers of experienced staff. So it might not be AI, although my experience with AI suggests it's right about 60% of the time and there's no way I would let it implement it's own recommendations anywhere near anything that earned me money. It might just be cheaper, younger, newer staff making mistakes they don't know how to fix. https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/ permalink fedilink source parent