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After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
Amazon mandates senior engineer approval for AI-assisted code changes after multiple outages linked to generative AI tools caused high-severity incidents, company said.
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After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
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 fa…
Amazon will hold a high priority internal meeting to analyze a series of recent falls in its online store, after the company recognized that generational AI-assisted production changes contributed, at least in part, to several severe incidents. *** Dave Treadwell convened a “deep dive” session after four Severity 1 incidents in a week. Amazon attributed last Thursday’s ruling to a “software code deployment” that affected checkout, accounts and p…
Generative AI is fantastic… until it isn't. Amazon, whose infrastructure maintenance is partly managed by AI, has suffered several outages in recent weeks. The company will be monitoring the AI's output more closely, with the help of its very human engineers.
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