nixCraft šŸ§Feb 21

Amazon service (AWS) was taken down by AI coding bot named Kiro

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-ai-aws-outages

In one incident in December, engineers at AWS allowed its in-house Kiro ā€œagenticā€ coding tool to make changes that sparked a 13-hour disruption, according to four sources familiar with the matter. The AI, ill-fatedly, had decided to ā€œdelete and recreate the environment,ā€ the sources said.

Amazonā€™s Blundering AI Caused Multiple AWS Outages

At least two outages at Amazon Web Services occurred after one of the company's AI models made changes to code.

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Show threadWuzzy

@nixCraft This should surprise absolutely nobody who knows their shit. For example, #39C3 had multiple talks showing how "agentic coding" just keeps crashing and burning over and over again.

> AI tools were treated as an extension of an operator and given operator-level permissions

LOL.

Feb 22 at 1:34amWeb
Show threadVinicius (PY2VMH)Feb 22
@nixCraft @Wuzzy AI agents are a cybersecurity nightmare. They are not easily controlled, so they can, and often do, end up doing stupid stuff (or malicious stuff) that breaks everything.