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A report from The Financial Times claims that, according to four of its sources, two recent AWS outages were caused by engineers allowing its Kiro AI coding tool to make changes without oversight.

According to a senior AWS employee, at least two production outages in the past few months were caused by the AI agent operating on its own terms. "The engineers let the AI [agent] resolve an issue without intervention," one source claims. "The outages were small but entirely foreseeable."

The FT's sources claim that one particular 13-hour interruption in December of last year was caused by the agentic tool deciding that the best course of action was to "delete and recreate the environment", which has echoes of another rogue AI agent last year deleting an entire codebase on a whim.

Source: PC Gamer