“Amazon has has made this change uh that it now requires a senior engineer to review any AI generated change because they realize the junior engineers will just say looks good to me and it causes an issue.”

— Gergely Orosz

Video moment · 37:26 · youtube.com

From “Slow down to speed up: AI and software engineering”, found 2026-10-14.

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According to the Financial Times, Amazon saw a run of incidents with a high blast radius involving AI-assisted changes. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.