Amazon Hands the AI Code Keys to Seniors After the Outage Parade
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Turns out the robot writes the code and the humans get to babysit it.
What happened
Following a series of outages that Amazon reportedly linked to AI-assisted code changes, a senior vice president wrote in an internal email, obtained by the Financial Times, that site availability had been poor. Junior and mid-level engineers now need senior sign-off for all AI-assisted code changes. Reports say Amazon's AI coding tools may have contributed to two AWS outages.