
Amazon Mandates Senior Approval for AI-Assisted Code
After a six-hour shopping outage and multiple AI-linked incidents, Amazon now requires junior and mid-level engineers to get senior sign-off before deploying AI-assisted code changes.
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After a six-hour shopping outage and multiple AI-linked incidents, Amazon now requires junior and mid-level engineers to get senior sign-off before deploying AI-assisted code changes.

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