Amazon Tightens Code Guardrails After Outages Rock Retail Business

After major outages partly linked to AI-assisted coding, Amazon is tightening engineering controls and requiring stricter reviews and approvals for code changes.

Too aggressive is not safe.

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At this stage, I think code reviews are more important than ever. But maybe not the traditional way.

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The AI agent is powerful, but it’s overhyped

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If you incentivize people to use AI for everything in order to get paid, you will get people that use AI without taking the time to read and test the generated code.

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Spot on @iPaul! The fundamentals are important, which is why Pilots still know how to fly an Aircraft even though they have autopilot. With AI, it’s the opposite, i.e., we DON’T NEED PILOTS!

Crazy!

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