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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 “agentic” 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 “delete and recreate the environment,” the sources said.

Amazon’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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nixCraft 🐧Feb 21

So this wasn't some startup moving fast. This was Amazon, one of the biggest tech companies and their own AI coding tool still managed to take down a prod for 13 hours and it happened multiple times? If they can't get the this stupid AI stuff right the rest of the world should probably think twice on giving these AI tools write access to database, cloud, email and IT . Of course, Amazon is motivated to make more money by firing devs/IT staff and they think it is the next big thing. LOL

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yorgos

@nixCraft I feel so bad about those PMs/C-suites deciding for these tools blindly. It cant be a simple engineer/architect that decided to go full on that. There is no way simple devs were preparing their replacement like that ;) I really wish this gets more traction to see the benefits of using AI..