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AI wrote the code. Amazon lost 6 million orders. Now they're hiring senior engineers to babysit the AI. March 2026. Amazon's internal AI assistant, Amazon Q, has been proudly marketed as a tool that makes developers "2-3x more productive". Then this happened: March 2: Customers saw incorrect delivery dates. Result…

I found out about a production bug from an alert, not from the person who caused it It was a 2 year ago. The alert fired at 11:40, the fix was ready twenty minutes later, the team moved fast and we closed the incident the same day. Then I looked at the timeline and saw something else: the author knew what he'd brok…

Everyone's talking about AI. But when someone asks "what actually is it?", most people go quiet. Is it the same as machine learning? Are neural networks and AI the same thing? What about ChatGPT - is that "real" AI? The terminology is confusing. And that confusion makes it hard to have informed conversations abou…

I found out about a production bug from an alert, not from the person who caused it It was a 2 year ago. The alert fired at 11:40, the fix was ready twenty minutes later, the team moved fast and we closed the incident the same day. Then I looked at the timeline and saw something else: the author knew what he'd brok…

My most effective team was the one I understood the least. After six months, every sprint ended with a positive result. No one raised any issues. Retrospectives lasted fifteen minutes, and people thanked me for saving time. I told myself that I had finally created something that worked. Then one of my senior emplo…

Everyone's talking about AI. But when someone asks "what actually is it?", most people go quiet. Is it the same as machine learning? Are neural networks and AI the same thing? What about ChatGPT - is that "real" AI? The terminology is confusing. And that confusion makes it hard to have informed conversations abou…