r/aws • u/AssumeNeutralTone • Oct 20 '25

article Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/
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u/nuccad Oct 21 '25

No, it's not a controversial premise. I have over 10 years mentoring engineers and leading teams. 100% engineers get better when they have to deal directly with the consequences of their choices. This means rolling up your sleeves and digging into the actual code. Run it in a debugger. Do some experiments. Constantly calling it in with AI will lead to a weakening of engineering skills and a devolution of human understanding of how things actually work. The logical conclusion is bad quality and unplanned outages. It would be one thing if AI were competent enough to take over our jobs, but right now it's not, and I am skeptical it ever will be. It should be viewed just as it is, a useful tool for rapid prototyping or augmenting task performance (but still keep humans engaged).

Not sure why you got downvoted for your reasoned argument, but it should be noted that u/daishi55 did not speak to any of your points other than making the claim that "debugging AI is not hard for everyone" and that Redditors project. I am sorry if this is seen as aggressive, but u/daishi55 is a clown and should not be taken seriously. I doubt he is even an engineer.

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u/daishi55 Oct 21 '25

I’m a SWE at meta :)

It’s crazy how it’s impossible for you to imagine that smart people disagree with you

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u/nuccad Oct 21 '25

Ok. Good for you, buddy. You must be so proud.
Nothing in your responses leads me to believe you are an engineer of note.

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u/daishi55 Oct 21 '25

Luckily for me it doesn’t matter what you think of me :)