Hacker NewsAI at Amazon: A case study of brittleness
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/06/08/ai-at-amazon-a-case-study-of-brittleness/
#HackerNews #AI #Amazon #brittleness #case #study #technology #innovation
edafeThe CrowdStrike Outage and Market-Driven Brittleness
"We have to deliberately break things and keep breaking them. This repeated process of breaking and fixing will make these systems reliable. And then a willingness to embrace inefficiencies will make these systems resilient."
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-crowdstrike-outage-and-market-driven-brittleness
Interesting Links
KemptonI thought of @bhaggart when I scan the article, "AI as Agency without Intelligence: on ChatGPT, large language models, and other generative models". [HT Grady]
//Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?// [HT Grady]
//“It also highlights the limitations of these LLMs, such as their #brittleness, #unreliability, and the occasional #inability to make elementary #logical inferences or deal with simple #mathematics.”// https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4358789
//Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?// [HT Grady]
//“It also highlights the limitations of these LLMs, such as their #brittleness, #unreliability, and the occasional #inability to make elementary #logical inferences or deal with simple #mathematics.”// https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4358789
Barak Ollama, Esq.However, there are cases when systems fail to adapt effectively when pushed just beyond their limits. These systems face what Woods and Branlat call decompensation: they exhaust their ability to keep up with the demands placed on them, and their performance falls sharply off of a cliff. This behavior is the opposite of resilience, and researchers call it brittleness.
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2022/12/28/southwest-airlines-a-case-study-in-brittleness/