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This report is a blog linking to a blog.
What a great idea to test this on paying customers' live production websites.
More likely their hamfisted return to work layoff scheme has caused them to bleed experienced staff. The only people left are less experienced and give less of a shit. It took them over an hour to realize the database of their DNS system was the issue.
I doubt it. Even the article claims that there's been no news about layoffs since July. No mentions from laid off engineers online either.
July isn't "days before", unless you're really stretching "days"
Ah yes trustworthy source 80.lv
Look into this source for like 2 seconds, it is a marketing research company, not journalists, with extremely suspicious and likely generated team. https://80.lv/contact-us#audience https://my.linkedin.com/in/arti-sergeev the "Head" of 80 level doesn't even seem like a real person, definitely not a real picture.
"the only winning move is not to play"
I know there's doubt as to the validity of the claims. I only want to say this: when "AI" takes jobs, who is there to plug things in to make the "AI" machine go?
Sounds like Amazon fucked around and found out.... Allegedly.
Amazon has laid off or scared off the vast majority of their most experienced people. Those that weren’t laid off quit over stupidity like “RTO”. I don’t doubt that their underpaid junior staff and Kool-Aid drinking upper management decided that AI is a great way to replace all the lost knowledge and expertise. As with the downfall of civilization, this will get much worse before it gets better. It will be interesting to see how huge companies react to another companies enshittification actively damaging their business and reputation.
Absolute fucking MORONS have taken over the world, and are wrecking it.
IF we ever get our country back, we have to go forward with a national strategy that we no longer have to be polite to treasonous MAGA scumbags. Everytime they open their mouths they should be shouted down with screams to shut the fuck up.
We should never have to tolerate the opinions of stupid, violent traitors.
DevOps cannot be automated away. So stupid.
Yeah I don't trust the source, but I've heard a ton of articles saying they've been replacing people with AI.
We cannot have the internet be centralized on central hardware with so little oversight.
The execs started buying into their own bullshit…
I really want this to be true, because not only I believe that would be the immediate outcome, but also because it would be hilarious.
But a somewhat credible source that's not wrapped in "allegedly" and old stories would really help drive the point home.
I've been waiting for something like this so we can see who's heads roll when AI fucks up. I figured we'd see doctors and lawyers losing their licenses first, but maybe it'll be this. So, who shoulders the blame when a program that can't learn from its mistakes fucks up a quarter of the internet?
Is there 404 reporting on this yet?
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/17/ai-amazon-workforce-jassy.html
It's not tough to see what led to this crash. Occam's razor is pretty clear on this one.
I wish they'd replace the executives first.
Probably why it crashed then
Why am I not surprised...
I'd like to read the stackademic link without signing up.
The replacement was in July. The article about that replacement was a few days back.
Humans would have said to test it first...
AI will just call you a genius for having a brilliant thought no one else could have ever thought of: fire workers and buy AI
Like, it's fucking insane that high up people are falling for chatbots bullshit, then asking it if they should use AI more. It's always going to say to use AI and fire humans, because the people making the chat bots want people to spend more on AI.
Can’t wait for Kevin Fang’s coverage of this whole mess
So far AI has lived up to 0/1000000000s of promises
From what I understand, this report and the layoffs were in July. It makes for a catchier headline to say it was days before.
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I get it but fuck these guys.
I'd like to believe, but the source for the article is a random Medium article which claims there were leaked document, but the headline is clearly click bait. The medium post doesn't go into any details about this, it just outlines some open source tools with "ai" to do basic tasks to run your infrastructure in AWS, not what any engineer working for AWS would actually be doing.
Anything with "allegedly" in the title is probably a lie.
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