AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants.

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.”

  • TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    I read stuff from one of my Jr’s all the time and most of it is made with AI. I don’t understand most of it and neither does the Dev. He keeps saying how much he’s learned from AI but peer programming with him is the pits. I try to say stuff like, “Oops! Looks like we forgot the packages.” And then 10 secs of silence later, “So you can go to line 24 and type…”

    So what kind of code is that? Code lyoko? Are they using more advanced code than their training should make one think?

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      12 hours ago

      It’s usually fine code but it just doesn’t follow the same conventions and flow. It’s kind of like reading a novel typed in block letters written in 3rd person then suddenly it’s cursive letters and 1st person.