> If you haven't seen coding agents produce working code you've not been paying attention for the past 3-12 months.

If you believe coding agents produce working code, why was the decision below made?

  Amazon orders 90-day reset after code mishaps cause
  millions of lost orders[0]

0 - https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-tightens-code-control...

▲ erklik 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Good journalism would include : https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-outage-...

I find it somewhat overblown.

Also, I think there's a difference between working code and exceptionally bug-free code. Humans produce bugs all the time. I know I do at least.

▲ simonw 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You appear to be confusing "produce working code" with "exclusively produce working code".

▲ AdieuToLogic 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> You appear to be confusing "produce working code" with "exclusively produce working code".

The confusion is not mine own. From the article cited:

  Dave Treadwell, Amazon's SVP of e-commerce services, told 
  staff on Tuesday that a "trend of incidents" emerged since 
  the third quarter of 2025, including "several major" 
  incidents in the last few weeks, according to an internal 
  document obtained by Business Insider. At least one of 
  those disruptions were tied to Amazon's AI coding assistant 
  Q, while others exposed deeper issues, another internal 
  document explained.
  
  Problems included what he described as "high blast radius 
  changes," where software updates propagated broadly because 
  control planes lacked suitable safeguards. (A control plane 
  guides how data flows across a computer network).

It appears to me that "Amazon's SVP of e-commerce services" desires producing working code and has identified the ramifications of not producing same.

	▲	simonw 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's why I'm writing a guide about how to use this stuff to produce good code.