In wake of outage, Amazon calls upon senior engineers to address issues created by 'Gen-AI assisted changes,' report claims — recent 'high blast radius' incidents stir up changes for code approval

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Amazon allegedly called its engineers to a meeting to discuss several recent incidents, with the briefing note saying that these had “high blast radius” and were related to “Gen-AI assisted changes.” According to the Financial Times, one of the contributing factors listed in the meeting notes was the use of generative AI tools “for which best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established.”

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