The Great Crash of Amazon AWS and Reduction in Staff in Favor of AI

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The recent Amazon AWS crash resulted in significant productivity losses, impacting numerous online services and businesses. Concurrently, Amazon has initiated a reduction in workforce, favoring AI technologies for operational efficiency. While the crash and staff reductions are not directly linked, the discussion suggests that AI could have potentially mitigated the DNS maintenance errors that led to the outage. This incident underscores the ongoing debate regarding the reliability of AI versus human oversight in critical infrastructure management.

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Just to be clear, the two items (RIF and outage) have no obvious connection. Except, perhaps, that if AI had handled the DNS maintenance, the mistake might have been even worse.

I was looking for an old quotation that went something like "computers can make more mistakes in a second than a person could in a year". But when I Googled that, AI immediately came to the energetic defense of computers.
 
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.Scott said:
I was looking for an old quotation that went something like "computers can make more mistakes in a second than a person could in a year".

I like: "To err is human, but it takes a computer to really screw things up."
 
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