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Reading comprehension is dead

Ken Birman, a computer science professor at Cornell University, told Reuters that “software developers need to build better fault tolerance,” suggesting Amazon could have done more to prevent the latest outage. “When people cut costs and cut corners to try to get an application up, and then forget that they skipped that last step and didn’t really protect against an outage, those companies are the ones who really ought to be scrutinized later,” Birman told Reuters.

suggesting Amazon could have done more to prevent the latest outage.

The professor is explicitly saying the opposite. The reason these blips from hyperscalers cause such widespread impacts is that the companies/applications that use these services don't bother to take any precautions against outages.

The full context from the Reuters article is literally 3 sentences I don't understand how this "technology reporter" so fundamentally misunderstood what was being said

Not trying to defend Amazon it just amazes me that this is what passes for journalism now.

Not the point of this article but

Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division

Wasn't it just a month or two ago that Zuc was poaching AI engineers with multi-million dollar sign on bonuses? These boom and bust cycles are happening at breakneck speed. Most efficient system btw