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
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RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116205343316077705
Lmao. Gen AI is causing outages at AWS and Amazon causing business income loss. So now all AI created code needs senior developers to check it twice. So how is this saving time? #ai #llm #aws
RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116205343316077705
Oh no, again? Who could have seen it coming?!
Narrator: anyone could have seen it coming.
Also, this is a new thing, not the old thing reported on a few weeks ago:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/20/amazon-cloud-outages-ai-tools-amazon-web-services-aws
RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116205343316077705
Given how core MS, Github, AWS and co are, and their YOLO in the AI code approach. We are probably months out from an utterly catastrophic AI driven availability or security related incident.
RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116205343316077705
i've said this before but i'm gonna say it again: it's *fascinating* watching the software industry rediscover why best practices exist in real time
RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116205343316077705
So freaking predictable...
