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After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
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Amazon's ecommerce division will require senior engineers to approve AI-assisted changes following a series of outages linked to these tools. The company identified a trend of incidents with a high blast radius associated with novel GenAI usage.
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- Praise: Implementing a 'self-review' flow could enhance accountability and set clearer expectations for code quality, especially with AI-generated contributions.
- Praise: AI-assisted coding tools can significantly speed up feature delivery, although the review process currently hampers this advantage.
- Concern: Mandatory senior reviews of AI-assisted code may not improve code quality, as they require significant time and may not catch all issues.
- Concern: The review process for AI-generated code creates a bottleneck, negating many of the efficiency benefits that AI is supposed to provide.
- Concern: Engineers feel that the current system prioritizes superficial metrics over genuine quality, making it difficult to navigate career advancement.