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.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/after-outages-amazon-to-make-senior-engineers-sign-off-on-ai-assisted-changes/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116205075329513597
...in which Amazon tell us that outages were caused by unreviewed AI code...
oh yeah somebody said something about there being no doubt about productivity gains because 'they see them everyday'?
Well ok I'll accept your still anecdotal evidence but I would like to debit hours from those x1 engineers productivity gains and raise a credit for hours lost by every person affected by these outages. #AI
