Comment by astonex
6 days ago
From their status page
>The second path involves rolling back a recent change to the billing computation subsystem.
Want to bet AI code was involved?
6 days ago
From their status page
>The second path involves rolling back a recent change to the billing computation subsystem.
Want to bet AI code was involved?
I'm not a betting person but I am looking forward to the postmortem, whether or not AI was involved, and what their code to production verification stuff looks like now. This kind of thing should have been caught by automated tests.
There is an enormous amount of money invested in trying to prove the opposite, for this reason not only they will never admit it, they will actively negate AI was used. It happened before:
https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/02/24/aws-would-ra...
User: "I want to improve the billing system to be more efficient and só we can earn more money"
AI: "No problem, let me change how we bill and fix the tests for the new increase in value"
>Spawning Sub-Agent: "Dr. Evil"
Is it still a bet if you have 99.999% chance to win?
Do people not write tests anymore?
How is 1 + 1 = 2 hard to test?
Vibe coded implementation paired with vibe coded tests made to fit the implementation?
Reminds me of the decimal point scene in Office Space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fGHaVn5rGo
They'll never admit it.
Why would they? Changing colors on the status dashboard needs VP approval.
10 layers of approvals to get a reasonable change implemented, but this shit gets pushed to production instantly. AI is driving leaders insane - they actually believe they can stop operating with humans and take all of the money. Remember your pay is transactional. Never give them more than written in your contract, and there is no shame in playing dirty politics to advance within.
Can I bet you 437 billion dollars?