Christine Lemmer-WebberMar 10

It turns out GenAI code changes are causing serious incidents and outages at Amazon with "high blast radius" https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/after-outages-amazon-to-make-senior-engineers-sign-off-on-ai-assisted-changes/

Junior / middle engineers no longer allowed to push GenAI code to production without senior engineer review

(HT @KimPerales )

EDIT: Better link above than before. Old one is here:
https://www.ft.com/content/7cab4ec7-4712-4137-b602-119a44f771de

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

AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants.

Ars Technica
Show threadSandrockcstm, in space!Mar 10
@cwebber I love that Amazon just admitted that high-risk changes were pushed to production by Jr Engineers with no review by Senior staff. There's so much to unpack here.
Show threadarceuthobium
@Sandrockcstm @cwebber why does it sound like “Amazon has begun requiring basic due diligence”
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