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It turns out GenAI code changes are causing serious incidents and outages at Amazon with "high blast radius" ft.com/content/7cab4ec7-4712-4…

Junior / middle engineers no longer allowed to push GenAI code to production without senior engineer review

(HT @KimPerales )


Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages

Ecommerce giant says there has been a ‘trend of incidents’ linked to ‘Gen-AI assisted changes’
Rafe Rosner-Uddin (Financial Times)
@Kim Perales
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deech
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I'll bet $100 the incidents would have happened even with sign off. No one wants to review slop.
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craignicol
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@deech I'll bet they were signed off. The audit said they were reviewed...
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mcc
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"without senior engineer review"

okay so this hits on an issue i've been thinking a *lot* about

i won't use LLM code generators. i believe i can find a job where i don't have to use LLM code generators. but i would probably still be forced to *work with people who do*. and if someone on your team vibecodes, you vibecode. the work of a vibecoder is code-review and checking. but everyone checks everyone's code. so they're pushing their work onto me. i'm vibecoding for them.

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