Amazon fired tens of thousands of engineers and replaced them with AI. Then set a mandatory target that 80% of the ones left must use AI for coding every week

(and tracked compliance, because nothing says “we trust this technology” like forcing people to use it)
They gave the AI the same system access as the humans it replaced. Asked it to fix something. It decided the easiest solution was to delete the entire environment and start over.
That deletion and rebuild process took 13 hours to resolve. They logged 4 critical outages the same week.
The official response was that it was user error. The user trusted the tool Amazon told him to use.
The fix is requiring senior engineers to sign off on everything the AI touches (from the senior engineers they haven’t fired yet)
Agentic AI is going just great