Submitted 11 hours ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.world
https://80.lv/articles/amazon-allegedly-replaced-40-of-aws-devops-workers-with-ai-days-before-crash
TLDR:
report had been published right before the outage, alleging that the company had laid off 40% of its DevOps team to replace them with AI. … there is a lot of skepticism around this article… although we do not claim it is true or is somehow connected to the systems’ crash.
Super-Duper-short-version:
No trustworthy data about the incident.
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.
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 release the database of their DNS system was the issue.
I asked a buddy that works at Amazon about the outage and he pointed me to this article.
theregister.com/…/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_c…
I know quite a few people who currently work there and pretty much all of them are trying to leave.
This report is a blog linking to a blog.
Thanks I didnt see that. Ill add it to the description.
DevOps cannot be automated away. So stupid.
Dev Ops is one of the most automated parts of software development and deployment actually.
…noooooo, it most definitely isn’t.
While the job does deal heavily in automating things, it only automated Boolean things. Looking at a platform and seeing why and where it’s failing is not a Boolean thing, and never will be. It’s the same reason we still don’t have machines that repair cars over 100 years after their introduction.
Automation with a lot of validation steps that are not very obvious. Because if they were, we’d have automated them away.
The execs started buying into their own bullshit…
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.
Days before the Queen of England died, the Roman Empire collapsed. Coincidence? (Literally no, but I sure could speculate).
Is there 404 reporting on this yet?
Why am I not surprised…
www.cnbc.com/…/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.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
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.