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AI code wreaked havoc with Amazon outage, and now the company is making tight rules

Amazon has been aggressively pushing its engineers to adopt AI tools. At least 80% of its developers are expected to use AI for coding tasks at least once a week. However, recent events suggest that ...
Business Insider

Amazon orders 90-day reset after code mishaps cause millions of lost orders

Amazon is beefing up internal guardrails after recent outages hit the company's e-commerce operation, including one disruption tied to its AI coding assistant Q. Dave Treadwell, Amazon's SVP of ...
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Amazon says hours-long outage was triggered by 'software code deployment'

Amazon's website and shopping app had technical issues for several hours. Users reported trouble accessing checkout and account information, as well as viewing product detail pages. Amazon said ...
InfoWorld

Amazon Q Developer review: Code completions, code chat, and AWS skills

Amazon Q Developer works well for completing lines of code, doc strings, and if/for/while/try code blocks, but can’t generate full functions for certain use cases. When I reviewed Amazon CodeWhisperer ...
The New York Times

At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work

Pushed to use artificial intelligence, software developers at the e-commerce giant say they must work faster and have less time to think. Others welcome the shift. By Noam Scheiber Noam Scheiber has ...