Amazon is now requiring junior and mid-level engineers in its e-commerce division to obtain sign-off from senior engineers for any code changes assisted by artificial intelligence. The new mandate follows what an internal document calls a "trend of incidents" that have impacted the company's online store and related infrastructure. [2, 7, 13]
In an email to employees, Senior Vice President Dave Treadwell acknowledged that site availability "has not been good recently." A briefing note for a meeting on the outages cited "novel Gen-AI assisted changes" as a contributing factor, noting that best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established for the new technology. [2, 7, 13]