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After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes (arstechnica.com)
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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.”

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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 18 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

It's going to make snr devs get fired, surely?

They either refuse to sign off when boss wants them to and get fired or sign off and get fired when ai code they signed off on causes issues.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 hours ago

Or quit/find new jobs. I suspect that's by design by Business Idiots.

*Get rid of the most expensive engineers and the cheaper ones can just use AI to make up the difference in output. And we can make the lower engineers the fall guy when convenient and replace them at our leisure *

The disdain bosses have for average people is astonishing.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 16 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Bingo.

Maybe not outright fired, but absolutely open them up to career limits based on what you described.

All of Amazon's code undergoes code reviews already. Accepting a PR is already spiritually a sign off.

This is just explicitly a threat, explicitly trying to find someone to hold accountable because you can't hold ai accountable. What are they gonna do, fire the ai? Sign here to be the fall guy. Fuck off.

[–] undeffeined@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

Hold the Fucking C-suites accountable

[–] ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

How can they fire them ?

They're not employing them to look pretty you know.