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 threadAlison Pitt Mar 10
@cwebber whyyyyyy was anyone being allowed to push to prod without review?! GenAI or not that feels like a bad idea. Like omg
Show threadslimehunter
@adastra1930 @cwebber this sentiment exactly. I imagine the no QA situation (maybe cuts) could be involved. Seems more common now to just let people do a quick self- review and blame it on them in the short term.
Mar 10 at 7:38pmWeb
Show threadRealGene ☣️Mar 10
@slimehunter @adastra1930 @cwebber
Now they'll just blame it on the "senior engineer" tasked with reviewing the spew.
Show threadslimehunterMar 10
@RealGene @adastra1930 @cwebber oh jeez where does it end? only junior engs with an AI agent larping as a senior eng reviewing the AI code I guess. This is going to be great.