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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[–] 5 points 7 months ago

When I worked there 20% of the work we had to do had to go through a senior engineer. And getting his time was like pulling teeth.

More of the time he would just nitpick grammar in docs and then finally rubber stamp work. It was awful.

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