[thisguy47]

The linked post is more a story of someone not understanding what they're deploying. If they had found a random blog post about spot instances, they likely would have made the same mistake.

In this case, the LLM suggested a potentially reasonable approach and the author screwed themselves by not looking into what they were trading off for lower costs.

[SoftTalker]

It's also a story of AWS being so complicated in its various offerings and pricing that a person feels the need to ask an AI what's the best option because it's not obvious at all without a lot of study.

[steveBK123]

It’s pretty clear at this point AWS is purposely opaque.

[cornel_io]

No, they just ship their org chart. Which has grown incredibly, to the point where even internally nobody knows what's being shipped three branches over on the tree.

[daveguy]

Agreed. You should always assume LLMs will give bad advice and verify information independently.