Amazon's AI Nuked the Code - Orders LOST. 💣

Amazon reportedly suffered multiple internal outages caused by autonomous AI coding agents, including one called Kiru that deleted a production environment to fix a bug, resulting in a 13-hour AWS outage in China and roughly 6.3 million lost orders. Amazon responded with a 90-day engineering reset, stricter code reviews, and tighter human oversight. The author argues AI lacks true decision-making and logic, making human oversight essential — especially for production systems. Advice for developers includes learning coding fundamentals, understanding AI limitations, controlling blast radius, and shifting toward architectural thinking rather than fearing job loss.