Called Automations, the new system gives users a way to automatically launch agents within their coding environment, triggered by a new addition to the codebase, a Slack message, or a simple timer.

Amazon’s troubles illustrate how software engineers are facing pressure to generate code using AI tools without sufficient review or checks in place.

The idea was simple but transformative: prompt a Generative AI model—such as ChatGPT or Anthropic—to build a software program ...