After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes

First Microsoft and now Amazon (eg. their RufusAI is useless compared to the old comment search!)

Has Seattle now become the code-slop capital ? Or is SFO still on top ?

A former colleague of mine recently took a role that has largely turned out to be "greybeard that reviews the AI slop of the junior engineers". In theory it sounds workable, but the volume of slop makes thoughtful review impossible. Seems like most orgs will just put pressure on the slop generators to do more and put pressure on the approvers and then scape goat the slop approvers if necessary?

I knew this would happen.

Take a perfectly productive senior developer and instead make him be responsible for output of a bunch of AI juniors with the expectation of 10x output.

lgtm

"We want you to use AI for everything!"

"No, not like that though!"

Curious question, how many Amazon Engineers flunk basic CS?

If you know CS you know two things:

1. AI can not judge code either noise or signal, AI cannot tell. 2. CS-wise we use statistic analysis to judge good code from bad.

How much time does it take to take AI output and run the basic statistic tools for most computer languages?

Some juniors need firing outright

The excessive exuberance of AI adoption is all part of the bubble.

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Yet another example of vibe coding at scale. You'll have to hire a lot of seniors out of retirement to fix that mess of gigantic proportions... and don't blame "the juniors" for that, they didn't make the decision to allow those tools at first place.

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> Amazon’s website and shopping app went down for nearly six hours this month in an incident the company said involved an erroneous “software code deployment.” The outage left customers unable to complete transactions or access functions such as checking account details and product prices.

The environment breathed a little.