Amazon owns up to needing more human oversight over AI code—unfortunately, it wants to do that with fewer people
Turns out relying on AI-assisted vibe coding or similarly generative tools for major tech infrastructure has some drawbacks—who could've foreseen this? Apparently, Amazon may have some regrets.Earlier this week, the e-commerce team at Amazon arranged a "deep dive" meeting with a number of engineers to investigate what led to a series of outages. A briefing note for the meeting on Tuesday was seen by The Financial Times, and it describes a "trend of incidents" with a “high blast radius." Some but...