AWS admits AI coding tools cause problems, reckons its three new agents fix 'em

Amazon is all-in on agentic AI when it comes to software development, and it sincerely hopes you are too, based on Tuesday's AWS re:Invent keynote.  AWS chief Matt Garman announced a trio of new "frontier agents" with a software development focus on stage in Las Vegas on Tuesday morning: One that makes its Kiro agentic AI IDE …

[MaChatma CoatGPT 2.0]

"This is the hospital calling..."

"Bad news, I'm afraid. The surgeon operating on your loved one messed up and he now has a nose transplanted onto his knee. Don't worry though, we have three more doctors who can correct it."

[Michael Hoffmann]

And to solve the new problems the 3 fix-it agents will introduce, we will add 3 new agents to fix *them* (each). Ad nauseam, until the data centre melts.

[nobody who matters]

If it needs three subsidiary 'agents' to correct the faults the fake AI has come up with, it just underlines how utterly useless the fake AI really is.

[Dan 55]

Don't worry about it. We guarantee that if the first roll of the dice turns out badly, the next three rolls of the dice will be fine.

[DrewPH]

D'oh

I wish we could post a "D'oh!" icon on a whole article.

[m4r35n357]

I know an old lady

. . . who swallowed a fly . . .

[ecofeco]

Re: I know an old lady

Perfect reference.

[Locomotion69]

Where is the Colonel when you need him?

Three more AI tools to correct one AI tool ? This is getting too silly - please make it stop!

[Mostly Irrelevant]

Sounds like a case of "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail". Quick, use AI to compensate for the flaws in AI!