Amit Mahbubani

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[arthaud @arthaud_]

French gov moving faster than most companies

we now have a skill to do taxes, what a time to be alive

[Amit Mahbubani @mahbubaniamit]

TLDR, you are the problem

[Lydia Hallie ✨ @lydiahallie]

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Here's what we found:

[Shantanu Goel @shantanugoel]

Looks like HSBC saves passwords in plain text!
Wonder how many @RBI policies they are in violation of.

[Amit Mahbubani @mahbubaniamit]

@DhravyaShah please do better, this is cringe and embarrassing

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Amazon had four Sev-1 outages (their highest severity level) in a single week. Internal memos say AI-assisted code changes were a contributing factor.

The timeline here is wild. In October 2025, Amazon laid off 14,000 corporate employees. In January 2026, another 16,000. That’s about 30,000 people in five months, roughly 10% of the corporate workforce. CEO Andy Jassy said the cuts were about culture, not AI.

During those same months, Amazon set a target: 80% of developers using AI coding tools at least once a week. They tracked adoption closely and blocked rival tools like OpenAI’s Codex. Even so, 30% of developers still hadn’t touched Amazon’s in-house tool Kiro by January.

In December 2025, Kiro caused a 13-hour AWS outage. The AI tool had production-level permissions and decided the best fix for a bug was to delete and recreate an entire live environment. A second incident involved Amazon Q Developer, another AI tool. Amazon blamed both on “user error, not AI.” But quietly added mandatory peer review for all production access afterward.

Then March 5: Amazon’s retail site went down for about six hours. Over 22,000 users reported checkout failures, missing prices, and app crashes. Amazon called it a “software code deployment” error.

Five days later, SVP Dave Treadwell made the normally optional weekly engineering meeting mandatory. His memo acknowledged “GenAI tools supplementing or accelerating production change instructions, leading to unsafe practices.” These problems trace back to Q3 2025. Amazon’s own assessment: their GenAI safeguards “are not yet fully established.”

The new rule: junior and mid-level engineers now need senior sign-off on any AI-assisted production changes. Treadwell also announced “controlled friction” for the most critical parts of the retail experience.

For context, Google’s 2025 DORA report found 90% of developers use AI for coding but only 24% trust it “a lot.” An Uplevel study of 800 developers found Copilot users introduced 41% more bugs with no improvement in output. Amazon is finding out what those numbers look like at the scale of a $500 Billion revenue company, with 30,000 fewer people on staff to catch the mistakes.

[Amit Mahbubani @mahbubaniamit]

@grah4m @benhylak With docker, no web search/acess for the agent?

[Amit Mahbubani @mahbubaniamit]

@bcherny Can I get “extra usage” mode to use an external API key like Bedrock? Looks like it only supports fall back to Anthropic API

[Amit Mahbubani @mahbubaniamit]

@rnjn context7 MCP helps to a large extent https://t.co/Qt8coKfmSU - still messes up occasionally though

[Amit Mahbubani @mahbubaniamit]

@robinebers @joshm @browsercompany @arcinternet @diabrowser @Connor Could’ve just added the chat pane on arc (:

[Amit Mahbubani @mahbubaniamit]

@jacksondecampos My usecases here just use claude for analysis etc, so it wouldn't help or matter

[Amit Mahbubani @mahbubaniamit]

@jacksondecampos Single session works but feels limiting, conductor ought to ideally support+extend anything we'd do on claude code

On git projects - would be great if we could add a local git dir instead of needing a github URL

[Amit Mahbubani @mahbubaniamit]

@rom1trs Arcads

[Amit Mahbubani @mahbubaniamit]

@Dhavalsingh7 Yeah, you should write one.

Reading prod system prompts has helped me understand better, how cursor/manus/etc do this: https://t.co/FH3DZyPhFR

[Amit Mahbubani @mahbubaniamit]

@manthan_surkar @dirtman @levelsio https://t.co/OtpPSgPTrS

[@levelsio @levelsio]

@kokaneka Never use tests

[Amit Mahbubani @mahbubaniamit]

@kaushikb9 @varunachar Which?

[Amit Mahbubani @mahbubaniamit]

@nashcheez @RazorpayTech Better

[Amit Mahbubani @mahbubaniamit]

@JubbaOnJeans 10 minutes is super! Took an hour for me.

[Amit Mahbubani @mahbubaniamit]

@shantanugoel Got this on my iPhone on day 1 though. Probably a limited rollout?

[Amit Mahbubani @mahbubaniamit]

@Redisinc Yikes