AWS principal engineer: long-term, humans have no role in routine code review
adamse · x · 2026-09-19
Marc Brooker, distinguished engineer at AWS, argues that long-term humans have no role in routinely reviewing code. Adamse underscores the weight: AWS's principal engineer track holds one of the highest operational bars of any large-scale platform, and such assertions are made based on data — a striking moment in the debate over when and how humans should sign off on changes.
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