AWS suffered ‘at least two outages’ caused by AI tools, and now I’m convinced we’re living inside a ‘Silicon Valley’ episode

As we well know as programmers, technically correct is the best kind of correct.

You're my hero-of-the-day(tm) for putting quotes around AI. Thank you for all you do.

To be fair, they did briefly cover VR on the show. Although they portrayed it as more of a fad and vaporware scam to defraud investors. As times gone on though it has stuck around. While not as much of a buzzword as it once was, it has cemented itself as legitimate tech.

It's not the AI that causes problems. It's the CEOs that INSIST this bullshit needs to not only be part of our lives, but also affect our lives.

We can't buy ram at reasonable prices. I hear storage (hard drives, and solid state drives) are also going to go back to being expensive.

GPUs as well.

This is just like a few years ago when all the crypto bros decided they needed all the GPUs. So prices went from $100 or so, to $700. I've heard of some high end GPUs at tge peak of it going for 3k.

Except this time, when the fad ends, I heard it's going to collapse the entire US economy.

We're being forced to prop up a technology that does not work in the ways they want it to, and never will. It can't. Thats not something a computer can ever do.

It's like saying a plane can fly at 550mph, and a pigeon can also fly. Therefore we're forcing the entire united states economy to be dependant on pigeons flying from New York to Los Angelas in 5 hours.

It can't do that.

So when it fails, it basically creates a global depression.

That's what we're doing here. The CEOs are at fault. The AI itself will only do what you tell it to do.

Did you really watch it? It most certainly caused problems in the show as well.

Yeah, first time I watched I was like holy shit, are they filming my life? So much they get right in that show, especially the egos and pettiness

all the devs at work would talk about how much they love the show.

they all thought they were Bachmans, but were in reality Jareds.

I couldn't watch the show because it was too triggering to me. Imagine working on a team of Jareds...

Personally I always identified with Gilfoyle but knew deep down I was a Richard.

You know Russ, I've been known to fuck myself.

Except that AWS is (for better or for worse) a tier 1 network solutions provider, in part because of advertised uptime. Due to that, it is possible for a minor AWS outage to result in lack of 911 service in an area, for example. Hopefully they have the common sense to try out these new things on less critical nodes though.