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After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes (arstechnica.com)
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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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[–] MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I hope I am cautious enough. I use strict db models that were man written and have type checking and sanitation. That along with unit tests that cover everything I've been able to think of that can go right or wrong combined with the classic "obscurity===security" motto.

Of course there are always vectors one hasn't thought of, but that goes for man made projects as well. If I decide to bring it live and scale up I'll probably order a pen test.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like you're 1) thinking about it and certainly 2) doing way the fuck more than most utilizing AI.

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