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

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> Amazon’s ecommerce business has summoned a large group of engineers to a meeting on Tuesday for a “deep dive” into a spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools. > > 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, according to a briefing note for the meeting seen by the FT. > > Under “contributing factors” the note included “novel GenAI usage for which best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established.”

Well that’s going to make your senior developers quit.

I am not a developer, but:

I told the owner of the company recently that, and I quote, “I will fucking kill myself if my job becomes reviewing AI output”

Never kill yourself for something that’s somebody else’s fault.