Graham McNicoll

I saw the Amazon report. Four major outages in one week from AI-assisted code changes. They held a mandatory meeting. Most engineering orgs will not get a warning that visible. AI coding tools are genuinely impressive. I use them every day. The problem starts when the code they generate hits production without a flag in place. No flag means no kill switch. When something breaks, the entire user base is affected and the only move is a rollback. That is a slow, costly fix for a problem that a feature flag resolves in seconds. Vibe coding without flags is thrashing at scale. You are moving fast with no ability to limit the damage when something goes wrong. One flag per AI-generated feature. That is the circuit breaker. Is your team wrapping AI-generated code in feature flags before it hits production?