Amazon tightens reviews of AI-written code, imposes 90-day ‘code safety reset’ for fixes

Following the major outage owing to a fault in its internal AI coding assistant, Amazon has now announced a temporary 90-day “code safety reset” across its critical engineering systems. A series of recent outages disrupted customer orders and exposed vulnerabilities that were eventually linked to the aggressive adoption of AI-assisted coding tools, something which Amazon now wants to fix.

The move, which has been detailed in internal documents and communications (originally reported by Business Insider) from Dave Treadwell, Amazon’s SVP of e-commerce services, aims to introduce “controlled friction” to code changes in high-impact areas while the company works on longer-term safeguards.