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.”

  • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    3 days ago

    Senior devs are expensive.

    • If they don’t quit, they are an accountability sink.
    • If they do quit, amazon saves money on labor arbitrage.

    Win, win! Brilliant! For amazon.