AI: Amazon orders 90-day reset after code mishaps cause lost orders

AI: Amazon orders 90-day reset after code mishaps cause lost orders(businessinsider.com)

4 points by danebalia 111 days ago | 3 comments

danebalia 111 days ago |

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 e-commerce services, told staff on Tuesday that a “trend of incidents” emerged since the third quarter of 2025, including “several major” incidents in the last few weeks, according to an internal document obtained by B-17. At least one of those disruptions were tied to Amazon’s AI coding assistant Q, while others exposed deeper issues, another internal document explained.

speakingmoistly 111 days ago | |

> Under the new policy, Amazon engineers must get two people to review their work before making any coding changes.

I wonder if this is adding human review where there was none, or if this is adding more of it.

WalterGR 111 days ago |

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323017 - “After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes” (654 points | 3 days ago | 490 comments)