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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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https://www.ft.com/content/00c282de-ed14-4acd-a948-bc8d6bdb339d (https://archive.ph/yqoNC)

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[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Honestly, that's the most amazing revelation here. Turns out there's no human reviewing what the agent does, and no testing environment to make sure stuff that gets pushed to prod is even minimally working.

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