Amazon Tightens AI Oversight After Outages Tied to GenAI Changes
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Amazon blames outages on GenAI-assisted changes and its in-house AI coding tool, leading to tighter guardrails and a requirement for senior sign-off on AI-driven code changes. AWS outages were also linked to AI tooling. The company plans to continue deploying AI under stronger oversight, even as it trims staff and pushes 80% of developers to use AI for coding weekly.
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