Apparently, AWS had at least two recent outages due to AI. It was originally reported by Financial Times, but their article is behind a paywall. If you’re subscribed, you can read it here.

Me seeing these news surprisingly coincided with me seeing this post on Reddit: Vibe coders passing responsibility on code reviewers.

And this is kinda true, scary, and reassuring at the same time.

True because it’s indeed very easy these days to generate a lot of code in almost any language.

Scary, because the meme about 5000+ lines PRs with LGTM stands true. While AI code reviewers can quite effectively catch typos and style issues, that humans kinda suck in catching; overly complex logic is usually Ok for them. Thus, we will face more outages in the nearest future, in my opinion.

Reassuring, because it means that those of you who “keep the lights on” are not going anywhere because of AI. In fact, quite the opposite.

#ai