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

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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.

Junior and mid-level engineers will now require more senior engineers to sign off any AI-assisted changes, Treadwell added.

Do they have the option to reject changes they’re not professionally comfortable with?

Yes of course, they just don’t have the time, energy, and focus.