An AI agent at AWS autonomously chose to delete and recreate part of its environment. 13-hour outage. Amazon’s response: “user error”.

Amazon never misses a chance to point to “AI” when it is useful to them – like in the case of mass layoffs that are being framed as replacing engineers with AI. But when a slop generator is involved in an outage, suddenly that’s just “coincidence”.

The same company rapidly cutting 30,000 jobs and telling staff AI is replacing them? AI gets credit for the layoffs but not for the outages it causes.