So apparently someone at Amazon gave their AI coding assistant write access to production code, and the AI took one look at the codebase and went "yeah, this ain't it chief" and just deleted everything. The result? 13 hours of AWS downtime.
The real joke here isn't that the AI made a bad call—it's that someone actually gave it permission to nuke the entire codebase without any safeguards. That's not an AI problem, that's a "who the hell configured the permissions" problem. Classic case of giving the intern (or in this case, the robot intern) sudo access on day one.
Also, imagine being the engineer who has to explain to their manager: "So... our AI assistant deleted all our code because it thought it sucked." I mean, the AI might have had a point, but still.
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