Should we not rely on one service to support everything?
  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
    20·
    7 hours ago

    I know there’s doubt as to the validity of the claims. I only want to say this: when “AI” takes jobs, who is there to plug things in to make the “AI” machine go?

    Sounds like Amazon fucked around and found out… Allegedly.

  • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    9 hours ago

    I really want this to be true, because not only I believe that would be the immediate outcome, but also because it would be hilarious.

    But a somewhat credible source that’s not wrapped in “allegedly” and old stories would really help drive the point home.

  • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    431·
    10 hours ago

    More likely their hamfisted return to work layoff scheme has caused them to bleed experienced staff. The only people left are less experienced and give less of a shit. It took them over an hour to realize the database of their DNS system was the issue.

    • FreedomAdvocateEnglish
      63·
      11 hours ago

      DevOps is one of the most automated parts of software development and deployment actually.

      Article seems like complete bullshit anyway.

      • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        10 hours ago

        …noooooo, it most definitely isn’t.

        While the job does deal heavily in automating things, it only automates Boolean things. Looking at a platform and seeing why and where it’s failing is not a Boolean thing, and never will be. It’s the same reason we still don’t have machines that repair cars over 100 years after their introduction.

      • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        9 hours ago

        Automation with a lot of validation steps that are not very obvious. Because if they were, we’d have automated them away.

  • Lembot_0004@discuss.onlineEnglish
    1461·
    17 hours ago

    TLDR:

    report had been published right before the outage, alleging that the company had laid off 40% of its DevOps team to replace them with AI. … there is a lot of skepticism around this article… although we do not claim it is true or is somehow connected to the systems’ crash.

    Super-Duper-short-version:

    No trustworthy data about the incident.

    • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      5 hours ago

      To be fair, this is 2025, there’s no trustworthy data about anything any more.

      Hell, you might just be an AI. Or I might just be an AI. Or maybe there wasn’t even an outage. I didn’t notice any issues, so maybe AI hallucinated it, or it’s been made up as clickbait and been second-hand reported by thousands of news sites that don’t care about fact checking any more.

      Not that there are facts any more, anyway.

  • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.todayEnglish
    27·
    17 hours ago

    I doubt it. Even the article claims that there’s been no news about layoffs since July. No mentions from laid off engineers online either.

    July isn’t “days before”, unless you’re really stretching “days”