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AI code wreaked havoc with Amazon outage, and now the company is making tight rules

Amazon has been aggressively pushing its engineers to adopt AI tools. At least 80% of its developers are expected to use AI for coding tasks at least once a week. However, recent events suggest that ...
TechCrunch

Amazon CodeWhisperer is now called Q Developer and is expanding its functions

Pour one out for CodeWhisperer, Amazon’s AI-powered assistive coding tool. As of today, it’s kaput — sort of. “CodeWhisperer is where we got started [with code generation], but we really wanted to ...
Business Insider

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

Amazon is beefing up internal guardrails after recent outages hit the company's e-commerce operation, including one disruption tied to its AI coding assistant Q. Dave Treadwell, Amazon's SVP of ...
InfoWorld

Amazon Q Developer review: Code completions, code chat, and AWS skills

Amazon Q Developer works well for completing lines of code, doc strings, and if/for/while/try code blocks, but can’t generate full functions for certain use cases. When I reviewed Amazon CodeWhisperer ...
GeekWire

Amazon unveils ‘frontier agents,’ new chips and private ‘AI factories’ in AWS re:Invent rollout

Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman opens the 2025 AWS re:Invent conference Tuesday in Las Vegas. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) LAS VEGAS — Amazon is pitching a future where AI works while humans ...