Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI
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Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI
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Re: Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI
#2people exist to serve AI, right?
Re: Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI
#3people exist to serve AI, right?
People exist to prop up massive shareholder value and justify insane capex.
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#4“A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a compu-“
Manager: “Pretty cool, huh?”
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#6Soon AI will come for the C suite too. Then whos lauhging?
Re: Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI
#7Which puts the blame squarely on the organization not the tool or the person.
Re: Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI
#8Now it is easy to blame AI for any mistakes, I remember back in the days we had to convince our PM that notepad++ was at fault for the bad code and the whole team should keep their jobs.
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#9AWS's answer to an AI-caused outage is mandatory peer review for AI-generated changes. So the solution is human oversight, the same humans they've been cutting by the thousands.
They took the human out, it broke, now the human goes back in. https://philippdubach.com/posts/a-bull-case/ gets into why domain expertise is going up in value, not down.
Re: Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI
#10if anyone gets a production line running for ai writing good code that steadily improves, its amazon.
the COE process is pretty robust for putting together good training material and deterministic checks.
its gonna keep getting these errors, and tend towards not getting the same error twice