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.
speakingmoistly3 hours 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.
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.
> 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.
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)