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ansibsha··on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
Yes, and trusting an LLM here is not a good idea. You know it will make important mistakes.

I’m not saying trusting cheap devs is a good idea either. I do think cheap devs are actually at risk here.

ansibsha··on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
No you’re not. The “how” is your job to understand, and if you don’t you’ll end up like the devs in the article.

We as an industry have been able to offload a lot of “how” via deterministic systems built by humans with expert understanding. LLMs give you the illusion of this.

ansibsha··on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
> better-specified software

Code is the most precise specification we have for interfacing with computers.