After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
by Rafe Rosner-Uddin, Financial Times from Ars Technica - All content on (#744PQ)
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 factors" the note included novel GenAI usage for which best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established."