[collingreen]

I love this story so much. Ask an llm to reason about your company devops decisions, get advice to do something you don't recognize, follow the advice without looking up what it means, surprised pikachu face.

In the current climate of lay people and pointy hair bosses saying ai can do this job or make it so more people can do this job without having to know things, this gives me a snarky chuckle.

I'm glad you learned what spot instances are (you did learn, right? They are limited time instances you can bid a price for and if the "spot" price goes above your bid they get reclaimed. They are NOT just magically cheaper servers everyone else just didn't know about). The big takeaway you should have, however, is that understanding what you're doing is important in this business and it's worth the time to at least try to understand everything you're working with. This applies every time, no matter if you are told to do it by a senior dev, a clueless pm, or a mindless robot.

I think you're setting yourself up for more failure if your takeaway is just to ask chatbots to do more of them understanding for you instead of less (which is how I read your takeaway #2).

Good luck out there! We've all made dumb production level mistakes; make sure you learn from yours!