03/10/2026
You may have seen the news recently. Amazon's own AI coding tool caused a 13-hour outage on AWS after it decided the best way to fix a bug was to delete and recreate the environment it was running in.
Amazon called it "user error." And technically, they're right. Engineers gave the AI elevated permissions and skipped the standard review process. But here's the thing: the AI still made the call. It still ran the command. And half the point of using these tools is that they work faster and with less human intervention. That's the whole pitch.
This is the tension at the heart of "vibe coding," the growing trend of letting AI generate, deploy, and even manage code with minimal human oversight. Move fast, skip the boring parts, ship it.
If Amazon, with thousands of engineers and layers of infrastructure safeguards, had a 13-hour outage because someone let the AI off the leash for a few minutes, what does that mean for a small business with one website, one payment processor, and no IT department?
At Lorien Web ,there's a difference between AI-assisted development and AI-autonomous development. Your website is your storefront. It should be built by someone who'll answer the phone when something goes wrong.
