After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

https://feddit.uk/post/45618928

After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes - Feddit UK

>The online retail giant said there had been a “trend of incidents” in recent months, characterized by a “high blast radius” and “Gen-AI assisted changes” among other factors Maybe LLMs should be used cautiously. Maybe companies shouldn’t be directed by executives who have bought into the “AI” hype train without fully understanding it.

“Amazon to force senior engineers to sign off on changes they don’t understand, so they can blame humans, not AI”
Ah yes, the reverse centaur.
Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

I hadn’t read this before, thanks for sharing!
In other words, it is an “accountability sink”.