[gdal-dev] GDAL & AI

[Scott]

This is a bit off-topic, but it's a heads up as we dive into the AI 
world. Here's an item of note from Amazon and AWS:

"Amazon is holding a mandatory meeting about AI breaking its systems. 
The official framing is "part of normal business." The briefing note 
describes a trend of incidents with "high blast radius" caused by 
"Gen-AI assisted changes" for which "best practices and safeguards are 
not yet fully established." Translation to human language: we gave AI to 
engineers and things keep breaking?

The response for now? Junior and mid-level engineers can no longer push 
AI-assisted code without a senior signing off. AWS spent 13 hours 
recovering after its own AI coding tool, asked to make some changes, 
decided instead to delete and recreate the environment (the software 
equivalent of fixing a leaky tap by knocking down the wall). Amazon 
called that an "extremely limited event" (the affected tool served 
customers in mainland China)."

https://x.com/lukOlejnik/status/2031257644724342957/photo/1

Scott

On 3/10/26 11:17, Peter Townsend via gdal-dev wrote:
> I thought it'd be easiest to just ask.
> 
> When you run any of the GDAL executables, is it a safe assumption to say 
> that if the process exit code is 0 that it really did succeed at 
> whatever you told it to do? Despite whether it wrote anything out to stderr?
> 
> To word it a bit differently, if the process code is not zero, can I 
> assume that it didn't work out and I should stop whatever I was doing 
> with GDAL?
> 
> I'm using v3.9.3 if that helps narrow down the behavior.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> Peter Townsend
> Senior Software Developer
> 
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