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by JCM9 1y ago
I get the optics issue, but companies that want to track this stuff have long had ways to do it. Simple badge taps on doors for example. For example, Amazon has automated reporting that monitors badging in and out of the office so they trac
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by JCM9 1y ago
I think it raises the bar on what’s needed to be a designer, but I don’t think it replaces the need for a designer. I’d draw parallels to web design. Yes some frameworks made it incredibly easy for anyone to whip up a decent looking profess
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by JCM9 1y ago
Total non statement… the statement on the IT outage is that we had an IT outage.
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by JCM9 1y ago
Good to see a detailed summary. The frustration from a customer perspective is that AWS continues to have these cross-region issues and they continue to be very secretive about where these single points of failure exist. The region model is
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by JCM9 1y ago
Lots of companies spun up giant AI teams over the last 48 months. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if 50+% of these roles are eliminated in the next 48 months. The AI party is coming to an end. Those without clear ROI are ripe for the choppin
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by JCM9 1y ago
Really enjoy this YouTube channel. Things are being a bit phoned in on these “articles” though as it’s just a transcript of the video and references images and content that aren’t in the article, which makes it difficult to read.
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by JCM9 1y ago
A lot of science supports the idea that helicopter hyper-parenting is hurting kids by having them grow up in an environment that’s too sterile. Let your kids go outside and roll around in the mud a bit. God forbid they lick the floor. Scien
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by JCM9 1y ago
Interesting. The “big sky” theory has its limits. Curious too to learn more about what data, if any, is shared with ATC on the location of these balloons. Airspace is regularly blocked off for rockets and other use, but for many weather bal
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by JCM9 1y ago
10 years ago potentially. Today the best engineers won’t take a job there so the bar has fallen quite far down market.
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by JCM9 1y ago
Amazon’s not the only company on the planet that pays well. While they’re above average they’re far from top of the market. If you’re talented enough one can make a lot of money and skip the toxic culture. Double win.
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by JCM9 1y ago
From what folks at AWS tell me that’s basically already happened. The best and brightest won’t even apply to work there anymore. For many key functions they’ve legit run out of people to recruit and thus have to go down market compared to c
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by JCM9 1y ago
It’s no secret that AWS has been seeing a mass talent exodus. Probably 90% of the folks I know that were the best and brightest in what they do and worked at AWS are no longer there. It’s beyond a blip, but a full blown exodus, with the tal
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by JCM9 1y ago
Mixing the AI bubble with the financial system. What could possibly go wrong.
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by JCM9 1y ago
The comp might be decent but most folks I know that are still there say they’re pretty miserable and the environment is becoming toxic. A bit more pay only goes so far.
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by JCM9 1y ago
I agree. Unfortunately AWS leadership is in an all out panic to compete, diverting attention away from core services. I wish they’d just get back to focusing on the foundational stuff!
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by JCM9 1y ago
Agree… still seeing major issues. Briefly looked like it was getting better but things falling apart again.
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by JCM9 1y ago
At 3:03 AM PT AWS posted that things are recovering and sounded like issue was resolved. Then things got worse. At 9:13 AM PT it sounds like they’re back to troubleshooting. Honestly sounds like AWS doesn’t even really know what’s going on.
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by JCM9 1y ago
Yes, the Amazon AI stuff isn’t great. They don’t really have the right leadership or talent to do anything particularly competitive there.
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by JCM9 1y ago
“Spend” requires a grain of salt here. AWS “invests” in Anthropic and then Anthropic buys AWS. If you follow the money with marked bills, AWS is buying this compute from itself and then claiming revenue. There’s a lot of that sort of thing
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by JCM9 1y ago
Yes, although unfortunately it’s not how AWS sold regions to customers. AWS folks consistently told customers that regions were independent and customers architected on that belief. It was only when stuff started breaking that all this crap
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by JCM9 1y ago
So the control plane for DNS and the identity management system are tied to us-east-1 and we’re supposed to think that’s OK? Those seem like exactly the sorts of things that should NOT be reliant on only one region.
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by JCM9 1y ago
Unfortunately I think AWS is there now. When you talk to folks there they don’t have great answers to why their services are behind or not as innovative as other things out there. The answer is basically “you should choose AWS because we’re
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by JCM9 1y ago
That story was true years ago but I don’t know that it rings true now. AWS is now often among the more expensive options, and with services that are struggling to compete on features and quality.
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by JCM9 1y ago
US-East-1 is more than just a normal region. It also provides the backbone for other services, including those in other regions. Thus simply being in another region doesn’t protect you from the consistent us-east-1 shenanigans. AWS doesn’t
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by JCM9 1y ago
I honestly feel bad for the folks at AWS whose job it is to sell this slop. I get AWS is in panic mode trying to catch up, but it’s just awful and frankly becoming quite exhausting and annoying for customers.
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by JCM9 1y ago
Sure it helps. Folks just saying there’s lots of examples where you still get hit by the blast radius of a us-east-1 issue even if you’re using other regions.
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by JCM9 1y ago
Given recent earnings and depending on where things end up with AI it’s entirely plausible that by the end of the decade AWS is the #2 or #3 cloud provider.
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by JCM9 1y ago
I listened to the earnings call. I believe the question was mostly focused on why AWS has been so behind on AI. Jassy did flub the question quite badly and rambled on for a while. The press has mentioned the botched answer in a few articles
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by JCM9 1y ago
It’s not that simple. The bit AWS doesn’t talk much about publicly (but will privately if you really push them) is that there’s core dependencies behind the scenes on us-east-1 for running AWS itself. When us-east-1 goes down the blast radi
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by JCM9 1y ago
Well that aged well

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