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[-] hamid@crazypeople.online 28 points 6 days ago

Ah yes trustworthy source 80.lv

Look into this source for like 2 seconds, it is a marketing research company, not journalists, with extremely suspicious and likely generated team. https://80.lv/contact-us#audience https://my.linkedin.com/in/arti-sergeev the "Head" of 80 level doesn't even seem like a real person, definitely not a real picture.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

So you’re saying the 80.lv “team” are AI generated? Wouldn’t that be ironic…AI making shit up about AI.

[-] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 6 days ago

Uhh, why do you say that's not a real pic?

[-] hamid@crazypeople.online 1 points 6 days ago

Literally everything about that site is generated. It is possible it is the real picture of a Russian guy who went to online school that lives in Malaysia but considering that all the articles, all the stock photos look generated, I'm going to assume the faces are too.

[-] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 5 days ago

Ok so you're bullshitting based on assumptions. Maybe you're right maybe you're wrong. Got it.

[-] hamid@crazypeople.online 1 points 5 days ago

I know for a fact this is a fake article with no proof lol that is enough for me. Sorry you lack critical thinking skills and media literacy

[-] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You know for a fact something that you cannot prove outside of your own personal intuition. This is why we can't have nice things.

Wow ai has gotten really good https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2499164710468188&set=pb.100011240502375.-2207520000&type=3

He even has the right number of fingers and various pictures in different states of shaving, dress, environments. If that guy is ai, I'd hire him.

[-] neuromorph@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago

"the only winning move is not to play"

[-] Capernaum@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

Yeah I don't trust the source, but I've heard a ton of articles saying they've been replacing people with AI.

We cannot have the internet be centralized on central hardware with so little oversight.

[-] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 4 points 6 days ago

The thing is that Amazon needs to get broken up way more than Ma Bell did. Most people have never heard of AWS before, but it's crazy to have one company own so much of the internet, even before you get into their stranglehold on internet commerce (which also should be broken up).

[-] PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

I've been waiting for something like this so we can see who's heads roll when AI fucks up. I figured we'd see doctors and lawyers losing their licenses first, but maybe it'll be this. So, who shoulders the blame when a program that can't learn from its mistakes fucks up a quarter of the internet?

[-] mudkip@lemdro.id 5 points 6 days ago

Probably why it crashed then

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 83 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[-] Hasherm0n@lemmy.world 78 points 1 week ago

I asked a buddy that works at Amazon about the outage and he pointed me to this article.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/

I know quite a few people who currently work there and pretty much all of them are trying to leave.

[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

This is a really good article. Thanks for posting it.

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago
[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 20 points 1 week ago

Thanks I didnt see that. Ill add it to the description.

[-] cley_faye@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week 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.

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 week 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.

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 week ago

A handful of senior engineers or developers. And then we're even more ducked when they retire or die, because the no-one is hiring junior engineers or developers

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

The good ones leave as things turn to shit, or we're laid off because their salaries were too high.

[-] mcv@lemmy.zip 44 points 1 week ago

What a great idea to test this on paying customers' live production websites.

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I'd believe them if they said they tested small- scale locally. Even good software/designs can implode when they get scaled up, and I doubt this was good design or software.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 39 points 1 week ago

Absolute fucking MORONS have taken over the world, and are wrecking it.

IF we ever get our country back, we have to go forward with a national strategy that we no longer have to be polite to treasonous MAGA scumbags. Everytime they open their mouths they should be shouted down with screams to shut the fuck up.

We should never have to tolerate the opinions of stupid, violent traitors.

[-] halloween_spookster@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

MBAs are mortal enemies of software engineers. Couple that with what one former CEO of mine said: "engineers have very well tuned bullshit detectors" and you arrive at the problem...

[-] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

I’m already there. I don’t hide my revulsion.

[-] frezik 19 points 1 week ago

They'll all pretend they were never MAGA, why are you still going on about Trump, we're trying to look forward, etc.

This is exactly how the GOP disowned the Bush II Administration with the Tea Party.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

And that's when we have to scream the loudest, and absolutely refuse to give their gaslighting any credibility at all. If you were a Republican during this era, then you are a MAGA Traitor, racist, rapist, incompetent, intolerant, violent, stupid, pedophile.

And you ALWAYS will be, forever.

Could give em the Hans Landa treatment

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago

Works for me. Brand a Swastika, or MAGA, or PedoCon, or Traitor, etc. Maybe give them their choice.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

This happens with any disruptive tech. In the 80s, Old white CEOs were computerizing everything without understanding computers. 2025 every grey CEO throws around A1 without having the first clue how it works.

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

throws around A1 without having the first clue how it works.

Just open the bottle and pour it on your well-done steak?

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 8 points 6 days ago

Probably a reference to secretary of education calling it A1

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

I see. I can't keep up!

[-] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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"

[-] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Days before the Queen of England died, the Roman Empire collapsed. Coincidence? (Literally no, but I sure could speculate).

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

The execs started buying into their own bullshit…

[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Amazon has laid off or scared off the vast majority of their most experienced people. Those that weren’t laid off quit over stupidity like “RTO”. I don’t doubt that their underpaid junior staff and Kool-Aid drinking upper management decided that AI is a great way to replace all the lost knowledge and expertise. As with the downfall of civilization, this will get much worse before it gets better. It will be interesting to see how huge companies react to another companies enshittification actively damaging their business and reputation.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

amazon also is more burned-out heavy than other tech companies aside from the tesla, i saw all those reviews and the peoples post on reddit.

[-] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/17/ai-amazon-workforce-jassy.html

It's not tough to see what led to this crash. Occam's razor is pretty clear on this one.

[-] sem 7 points 1 week ago

Is there 404 reporting on this yet?

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