AWS keynote hypes AI as magic. Its own engineers tell a different story

The Register · 5 months ago · 56

Amazon's internal StoreGen team uses AI coding tools like Kiro to accelerate development, but requires human review of all output before deployment, contradicting AWS's keynote rhetoric about AI as magic. The team found that spec-driven development reduces but does not eliminate AI hallucinations and unexpected behavior, with engineers spending less than 30 percent of their time on core coding tasks. Amazon maintains mandatory human approval for all mutating actions including code deployment and document publishing, reflecting a measured approach to agentic AI rather than full automation.