David GerardFeb 20

lol, AWS vibe coded itself an outage

https://www.ft.com/content/00c282de-ed14-4acd-a948-bc8d6bdb339d

Show threadNeo EhproqueFeb 20
@davidgerard can only see the headline but https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazons-cloud-unit-hit-by-least-two-outages-involving-ai-tools-ft-says-2026-02-20/
Show threadNeo Ehproque
@davidgerard it seems like they call a 14 hour outage caused by their own tools deciding to turn it off and on again an "extremely limited brief outage caused by user error"
Feb 20 at 8:28amWeb
Show threadpanuFeb 20
@ehproque
Yes, well, both "limited" and "brief" can be subjective and relative, but "user error" is spot on: it is an error by a human user to apply AI to... well, pretty much anything.
@davidgerard
Show threadLP🔸Light up the nightFeb 20
@ehproque @davidgerard Yes, my repeated comment on this one is that the responsibility crumple zone functioned as intended.
Show threadNeo EhproqueFeb 20
@LionsPhil @davidgerard like Cory Doctorow said: accountability sink