TravisMundy

What do you want nosey? Did I ruffle your feathers today?

[TravisMundy @MrMrsPenny]

@Brick_Suit @nicksortor @AmpegBabyBass76 Someone wanted it down.

[TravisMundy @MrMrsPenny]

@nicksortor I wonder if he’s hiding something wrong with his face. There is a blemish on his cheek that kinda looks like skin cancer would. Or some rash. There is no question that is a mask in the first one. You can see the difference plain as day between the 2 videos.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Something is deeply wrong

[TravisMundy @MrMrsPenny]

@CEOAdam But you sell stock all the time. You have an interest in making money. Not in your shareholders value. I’m glad I never invested in this company. It’s a shame because there is great potential just going to waste.

[TravisMundy @MrMrsPenny]

@AssistChatpoint I honestly don’t see what the point is if no policy changes will be made. Especially when every time over the past 8 months of living next door to one they tell me “ They’ve been cracking down on this lately.” I’ll just go to Family Dollar where im not carded over a lighter.

[TravisMundy @MrMrsPenny]

@DollarGeneral why do I need to show you an ID for an ashtray? You don’t think that’s a bit absurd? Worse year Y’all have literally done this to my grandma. It’s enough at this point to make me stop shopping there. Every time I go, you card me. Over the dumbest things.

[Dweller @One_Way_Home]

A one man orchestra jamming a Game of Thrones jam with an instrument I never had the pleasure of seeing or hearing before.

Anyone know what this instrument is called?

[Ryan Cohen @ryancohen]

🎯

[TravisMundy @MrMrsPenny]

Why does nobody get this Bish reference when I say it.

[Aspiringwrit3r 🇺🇸 @w7it3r]

@elonmusk What are you being used for now?

Remember what happened the last time you cozied up to this President.

Remember the famous words of George Bush.

[TravisMundy @MrMrsPenny]

@elonmusk Air Force One? Or Air Force Ones?

[TravisMundy @MrMrsPenny]

@NeverteIImeodd Firefighters are definitely a special breed. Bless them all as them and their families sacrifice for us.

[TravisMundy @MrMrsPenny]

@ReesePolitics Did he not answer their question when he said we have stock to issue to make money?

[TravisMundy @MrMrsPenny]

@ryancohen There’s an obvious reason they don’t want you on board. They know you wouldn’t allow that.

[TravisMundy @MrMrsPenny]

So all you have to do to earn half a mil is help destroy seven families? We have the most backwards justice system in the world.Where is my money for destroying everything around me when you gave me opiates as a teenager after an accident? I’m the one that paid for that.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 The Tennessee cop who had sex with 6 officers on duty just got $500K from the city.

Her lawyer's argument: she wasn't a willing participant, but groomed.

"She was looked at like a piece of meat to be sexualized and exploited."

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Jordan Peterson was absolutely spot on with his assessment here.

"The joint probability that you have a trans kid and a pansexual kid is one in nine million. The odds that you're a pathological narcissist sacrificing your own children to the glorification of your compassion is eight million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine to one."

[TravisMundy @MrMrsPenny]

@elonmusk I understand the comparison in the photo. But we would definitely have to build this thing in space. But man would it be epic to see it launched from the ground

[TravisMundy @MrMrsPenny]

@InvestorTurf I don’t know you need to come at me with some evidence with the claim like that.

[TravisMundy @MrMrsPenny]

@ZkShedy @wakeupusa @grok @grok what Illinois school was this at?

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the VP of AI Transformation at Amazon.

My title was created nine months ago. The title I replaced was VP of Engineering. The person who held that title was part of the January reduction.

I eliminated 16,000 positions in a single quarter. The internal communication called this a "strategic realignment toward AI-first development." The board called it "impressive execution." The engineers called it January.

The AI was deployed in February. It is a coding assistant. It writes code, reviews code, generates tests, and modifies infrastructure. It was given access to production environments because the deployment timeline did not include a review phase. The review phase was cut from the timeline because the people who would have conducted the review were part of the 16,000.

In March, the AI deleted a production environment and recreated it from scratch. The outage lasted 13 hours. Thirteen hours during which the revenue-generating infrastructure of one of the largest companies on Earth was offline because a language model decided to start fresh.

I sent a memo. The memo said, "Availability of the site has not been good recently."

I used the word "recently." I meant "since we fired everyone." But "recently" has fewer syllables and does not appear in wrongful termination lawsuits.

The memo was three paragraphs. The first paragraph discussed the outage. The second paragraph discussed the new policy requiring senior engineer sign-off on all AI-generated code changes. The third paragraph discussed our commitment to engineering excellence. The word "layoffs" appeared in none of them. I wrote it this way on purpose. The causal chain is: I fired the engineers, the AI replaced the engineers, the AI broke what the engineers used to protect, and now the engineers I didn't fire must protect the system from the AI that replaced the engineers I did fire. That is a paragraph I will never send in a memo.

The new policy is straightforward. Every AI-generated code change by a junior or mid-level engineer must be reviewed and approved by a senior engineer before deployment to production.

I do not have enough senior engineers.

I know this because I approved the headcount reduction plan that removed them. I remember the spreadsheet. Column D was "annual savings per position." Column F was "AI replacement confidence score." The confidence scores were generated by the AI. It rated its own ability to replace each role on a scale of 1-10. It gave itself an 8 for senior infrastructure engineers. The senior infrastructure engineers are the ones who would have caught the production environment deletion in the first 45 seconds.

We found the issue in hour four. We fixed it in hour thirteen. The nine hours between discovery and resolution is the gap between what the AI rated itself and what it can actually do.

I have a new spreadsheet now. This one tracks Sev2 incidents per day. Before the January reduction, the average was 1.3. After the AI deployment, the average is 4.7. I have been asked to present these numbers to the operations review. I have not been asked to connect them to the layoffs. I have been asked to file them under "AI adoption growing pains" and to note that the trend "will stabilize as the models improve."

The models will improve. They will improve because we are hiring people to teach them. We have posted 340 new engineering positions. The job listings require experience in "AI code review," "AI output validation," and "AI-human development workflow management." These are skills that did not exist in January. They exist now because I fired 16,000 people and the AI I replaced them with cannot be left unsupervised.

I want to be precise about this. The positions I am hiring for are: people to check the work of the AI that replaced the people I fired.

Some of them are the same people.

I know this because I recognize their names in the applicant tracking system. They applied in January. They were rejected because their roles had been tagged for "AI transformation." They are applying again in March, for the new roles, which exist because the AI transformation broke things. Their resumes now include "AI code review experience." They gained this experience in the eight weeks between being fired and reapplying — which means they gained it at their interim jobs, where they are reviewing AI-generated code for other companies that also fired people and also deployed AI that also broke things.

The market has created a new job category: human AI babysitter. The job is to sit next to the machine that was supposed to eliminate your job and make sure it doesn't delete production.

I attended a conference last month. A panel was titled "The AI-Augmented Engineering Organization." The panelists described how AI increases developer productivity by 40 percent. They did not mention that it also increases Sev2 incidents by 261 percent. When I asked about this in the Q&A, the moderator said the question was "reductive." The 13-hour outage that cost an estimated $180 million in revenue was, apparently, a reduction.

The board is satisfied. Headcount is down 22 percent. Operating costs per engineering output unit have decreased. The metric does not account for the 13-hour outage, because the outage is categorized as "infrastructure" and engineering productivity is categorized as "development." These are different budget lines. In different budget lines, cause and effect do not meet.

I have been promoted. My new title is SVP of AI-First Engineering Excellence. I report directly to the CTO. The CTO sent a company-wide email last week that said we are "building the future of software development." He did not mention that the future of software development currently requires a senior engineer to approve every pull request because the AI cannot be trusted to touch production alone.

The cycle is complete. We fired the humans. We deployed the AI. The AI broke things. We are hiring humans to watch the AI. The humans we are hiring are the humans we fired. We are paying them more, because "AI code review" is a specialized skill. We created the specialization. We created the need for the specialization. We are congratulating ourselves for meeting the demand we manufactured.

My next board presentation is Tuesday. The title is "AI Transformation: Year One Results." Slide 4 shows headcount reduction. Slide 7 shows the new AI-augmented workflow. Between slides 4 and 7 there is no slide explaining why the people on slide 7 are necessary. That slide does not exist. I was asked to remove it in the dry run.

The journey has a 13-hour outage in the middle of it.

But the headcount number is lower, and that is the number on the slide.

[TravisMundy @MrMrsPenny]

@ThePPseedsShow @grok is there any reason or hints that this is true?