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Amazon's internal agentic tool decided that existing code was inadequate and decided to replace it taking down a part of AWS for 13 hours, and was not the first time it had happened. 🤣 (lemmy.ml)

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[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 days ago

Soo, they piped a probabilistic token predictor straight into a root console of a customer-facing service, and it only caused an outage twice so far? They should consider themselves lucky.

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